But the RPW is about only doing and having what is commanded. Where the word is silent (Pews, Seating, etc) we don't introduce them. Narratives play an important role in figuring out what is in worship. Playing the other side here for a minute, we do not have commands to sit and by example people stood in worship so by inference we stand..
Again, I am not saying I am leaning this way but I do believe posture to play an important role.
Plus I believe I remember that the Scottish Church would not allow sitting (written in their church's documents) for the Reading of the Word for the same reasons I gave.
Circumstance are common to every human. We can not see to read without light so we must have light to see and prudence will determine what kind of light to use.
Otherwise, lets deck out our churches in all kinds of art and artistic designs, to the point we get back to the gothic gargoyles and iron works in the churches...
We no command regarding gargoyles or complex iron working art.
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Originally Posted by toddpedlar  Given the fact that there are no commandments about sitting or not sitting, but only incidental narrative passages (that comport with the practice of the time with other itinerant teachers and wise men) I see no reason to go one way or the other. Don't confuse narrative with commandment.
Frankly, I think a baptismal font is also a circumstance, as is any sort of table for the Lord's supper. We aren't commanded to have either kind of furniture. |