Of course. Alcohol and anything church related is very foreign to me. I grew up in a family where no one drank. If they saw someone from our church at a restaurant having a drink, (or heaven forbid, the pastor!!!) they would be declared anathema.
One of my friends at church loves to invite his Protestant friends to Pascha mostly because they can see our priests and deacon sitting on lawn chairs in the shade of a tree with a bottle of beer in hand!
They sometimes think "oh my gosh, those heretics!" I sometimes think, "oh my gosh, this just looks funny!"
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One of my friends at church loves to invite his Protestant friends to Pascha mostly because they can see our priests and deacon sitting on lawn chairs in the shade of a tree with a bottle of beer in hand!
They sometimes think "oh my gosh, those heretics!"
Well, I fully understand those who will consider holding a bottle of beer IN YOUR HANDS heretic. It gets warm and warm beer is
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Well, I fully understand those who will consider holding a bottle of beer IN YOUR HANDS heretic. It gets warm and warm beer is
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Warm beer is only good for making beer bread and catching snails.
But back on topic.
It is probably not the best idea to invite our protestant friends to Pascha as their first visit because it is such a long service, and it is so late at night. However, I have heard of some Protestants who did visit their first Orthodox Church on Pascha, and they were very impressed. It beat their little dawn service.
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Warm beer is only good for making beer bread and catching snails.
But back on topic.
It is probably not the best idea to invite our protestant friends to Pascha as their first visit because it is such a long service, and it is so late at night. However, I have heard of some Protestants who did visit their first Orthodox Church on Pascha, and they were very impressed. It beat their little dawn service.
Almost like Pascha says, "I'll get you my pretty and your little dawn service too!"
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Warm beer is only good for making beer bread and catching snails.
But back on topic.
It is probably not the best idea to invite our protestant friends to Pascha as their first visit because it is such a long service, and it is so late at night. However, I have heard of some Protestants who did visit their first Orthodox Church on Pascha, and they were very impressed. It beat their little dawn service.
I brought a curious friend to the 2006 Pascha service (it was his first Orthodox service). He absolutely loved it. 3 1/2 years later and he's been experimenting with a Greek and a Russian church somewhere in Cali. I'm very curious to see where that leads.
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