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Post by livinganewlife on Jan 16, 2009 10:46:38 GMT -5
Hi guys.......would someone please explain to me the morning / mourning bench that was symbolized in Black Baptist churches during revivals as the process one take in order to receive salvation......
also has anyone on here ever experienced the morning / mourning bench....and if you have experienced please share....
thanks!
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Post by MinLisa on Jan 16, 2009 10:59:33 GMT -5
My Pastor talk about that bench when she was growning up.... It was just a separate bench located in the front or on the side for people that wanted to be saved or ready for baptism.... so they want having any distractions.....from the person that next to them that may not want to be saved, or someone is talking, ..etc.etc....
I think we still need a mourning bench, I remember when I was younger... the mother board has a section for those that was seeking the infilling of the Holy Ghost..........and how they surround them calling on the name of Jesus..............
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Post by stillfocused on Jan 16, 2009 11:39:37 GMT -5
I have missed you all..this question had me giggling. The"moaning" bench in the church I grew up in was the first pew. We sat that bench during revival week because we wanted to "join" the church and in a part of that was we had to be baptized and it let everyone know who the candidates were for church "membership" and baptism. And sometimes those mothers left their side of the church and sat on that first pew.
It's rare to see to that now..because the first rows are now reserved for the Pastor, the elders, their families, and etc. How many of you remember the altars with rails, and a place to kneel along with the
kneeling pad ?
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Post by krazeeboi on Jan 22, 2009 20:50:23 GMT -5
Yeah, I heard about that "mourners bench" for those seeking the Lord during revivals. I actually had a chance to read up a little on the history of the modern-day altar call, popularized by evangelist Billy Sunday. The different ways the "call to salvation" (if I can call it that for the sake of clarity) was done before that were interesting.
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Post by Merriweather on Sept 5, 2010 20:41:07 GMT -5
The mourning bench were women who sat on the front bench and mourned. They were humming,mourning no words were ever said. The devil could not understand it, it was like speaking in tongues except, you understand. It was glorious! I can here them even now. Their prayers cover us even now!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by GISELLE on Mar 16, 2014 16:15:40 GMT -5
I know exactly what the mourning bench is. We called it the "moaning" bench when I was growing up. I grew up in a southern baptist church and when you turned 12 years old you were expected to go down to the moaning bench. We referred to it as "going down". We would ask each other, are you going down this year? This was expected of you if you wanted to join the church and be baptized. The preacher would approach us and motion us to kneel at the bench, then the deacons, deaconess and whoever else wanted to would gather around us and sing songs while we repeated over and over " O lawd save my soul,O lawd save my soul. You repeated this until the spirit hit you, and when you felt the spirit, you jumped up and started shouting,that's when everyone knew you got it. And those old songs they used to sing during revival-Believe I'll run on see what the end going "gone be", Move out the way satan, let me rise and alot more songs I can't recall right now. When we went down to the moaning bench and felt the spirit and got up and shouted, that's when you knew you got religion. Back then people didn't record everything on video like they do now, but I would give anything to see one of those revival meetings, we didn't say revival services, we called it revival meeting.
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Post by Julia. Pearce, on Jul 14, 2014 5:38:25 GMT -5
I too remember the moaning bench. Thanks for sharing
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Post by Phyllis on Mar 18, 2017 8:45:54 GMT -5
I too remember the moaning bench. Thanks for sharing |
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Post by Natalie on Mar 28, 2017 6:46:54 GMT -5
The bench. Yes yes! I was on it Monday,Tuesday,and Wednesday night. But, that THURSDAY night I came off. The prayers and humming and hymns back then will never be forgotten. Now everyone stand and pray. No one kneels to pray anymore. Some things that are not in church anymore should of never been taken out. Our children are lost and do not know how to seek God and kneel in prayer. I miss it ! Amazing grace was always a hymn you could expect to hear at any church
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Post by Anne on Oct 21, 2020 19:57:27 GMT -5
It was originally a bench on which to mourn your sins before repentance.
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Post by Patmos Island on Aug 13, 2023 15:52:33 GMT -5
Yeah, I heard about that "mourners bench" for those seeking the Lord during revivals. I actually had a chance to read up a little on the history of the modern-day altar call, popularized by evangelist Billy Sunday. The different ways the "call to salvation" (if I can call it that for the sake of clarity) was done before that were interesting. |
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Post by Patmos Island on Aug 13, 2023 15:56:35 GMT -5
I am happy to report that Patmos Island Community Church in Memphis, Tennessee has brought back the Mourning Bench as of today! It is available every Sunday at 11am. 2113 Hunter Ave. 38108. It's time.
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