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Originally Posted by micah6v8
I could add an 11th item to Freedom's list of 10 examples of "Double-Standards"
11) When a non-LSM church pastor gives a "sermon", it is frowned upon because "the congregation becomes non-functioning". Yet when a Blended Brother gives a one and a half hour "Message" in a conference, no one frowns upon the fact that the congregation is also passive/non-functioning during the one and a half hour.
Apart from the labels, a sermon and a message are the same thing. What may differ is simply the contents of the message/sermon.
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And this brings up a myth perpetrated by the double standards. That myth is that having the average/small potatoes "functioning in the meeting" is both scripturally prescribed, and spiritually superior to sitting and listening for the period of such a sermon.
In fact, other than the three-ring circus that Paul went to significant lengths to dismantle in Corinth, there is nothing else I recall seeing concerning anything material about the participation of the small potatoes in meetings.
And in the first mention of meetings after Pentecost, there is specific mention of gathering in the Temple to hear the teaching of the apostles. Sounds like a sermon to me.