From "Miss Julia Meets Her Match" Ann B. Ross
As a Southern Baptist currently attending a Presbyterian Church of America, I found this paragraph hilarious:
"Nevertheless, the whole revival atmosphere affronted me, aunaccustomed as I was to jarring music and joyful singing and hand-clapping and arm-waving and body-seaying in what claimed to a religious setting. You could look around the audience and pick out the Presbyterians by their unbending discmfort in the midst of such enthusiasm."
I admit, our current church considers "Stricken, Smitten and Afflicted" to be uplifting. People who hold up their hands during songs or prayer are looked upon with great suspicion. Anyone over the age of five dancing in the service should probably be brought before the Session and lectured on proper behaviour. Every now and I then I want to slip in a group of charismatics just to liven the place up. Which is why I need church.




