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Sleeping in EQ · 09-23-2008, 10:36 PM

There will be readers from many different backgrounds (Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, various flavors of Christian). I only get 3-4 minutes.

I think I'm going to read from Alma 24. Verse 18 has long been a favorite:

"And this they did, it being in their view a testimony to God, and also to men, that they never would use weapons again for the shedding of man’s blood; and this they did, vouching and covenanting with God, that rather than shed the blood of their brethren they would give up their own lives; and rather than take away from a brother they would give unto him; and rather than spend their days in idleness they would labor abundantly with their hands."

09-23-2008, 10:36 PM	#1
Sleeping in EQ Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The People's Republic of Monsanto Posts: 3,085	I've been asked to read at an interfaith meeting There will be readers from many different backgrounds (Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, various flavors of Christian). I only get 3-4 minutes. I think I'm going to read from Alma 24. Verse 18 has long been a favorite: "And this they did, it being in their view a testimony to God, and also to men, that they never would use weapons again for the shedding of man’s blood; and this they did, vouching and covenanting with God, that rather than shed the blood of their brethren they would give up their own lives; and rather than take away from a brother they would give unto him; and rather than spend their days in idleness they would labor abundantly with their hands." __________________ "Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; " 1 Thess. 5:21 (NRSV) We all trust our own unorthodoxies.