by rusmeister » May 4th, 2007, 3:42 pm
To Orthodox Christians, that's just plain horrifying.
By way of excessively brief explanation, Orthodox worship is not about adapting to or adopting the world, or what we want, or even what makes us comfortable or feel good. For me the big revelation was that a service was about serving God, not me. I had always thought about church in terms of my spiritual needs before I joined the Orthodox Church. Kind of like the Army having an agenda that has nothing to do with a soldier's personal needs, and is likely to actually inconvenience them.
In most Orthodox churches, there is no such thing as a pew (just a few benches along the walls for old/sick folk). You stand up, stand up for Jesus for up to 2 hours. No instruments at all; just a choir singing. And very little has changed in 2,000 years.
"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one."
Bill "The Blizzard" Hingest - That Hideous Strength