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Old 05-07-2008, 08:31 AM
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Where is this altar? I have been looking for one for years in Baptist churches and have yet to find one....
Haven't been around for awhile but I decided to drop back by ye olde puritan board...

I've often thought about that.

I grew up in Assemblies of God churches and "the altar" was that padded bench down at the front. My assumption is that it is a left over from the altar rail and kind of morhped through the mourner's bench to become the padded bench "altar"

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