You know, JM, I was thinking about #2 myself, but our ward hasn’t done this for years, so I thought perhaps this practice was going the way of the dodo bird.
]]>What’s more distracting:
1) Bishop sends a text to someone in sacrament meeting
2) Bishop writes a note, passes it to the aaronic priesthood helper who is sitting behind him on the stand. Instructs said helper to deliver the message to a person in the congregation. Helper walks down and finds the person in the congregation, hands them the note. Waits for the response, takes the response back to the bishop.
Presiding means more than just sitting there listening. I’ve seen #2 happen countless times. Texting is much less distracting. Heck, even the boys who walk around counting everyone are more of a distraction than the odd text message here and there.
]]>I was loving having my scrptures and manuals on my iPhone until a friend mentioned how uncool he feels when everyone else whips out fancy phones at church. While he’s on budget friendly paper scriptures.
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