THE BROTHERHOOD INDEX GUIDE TO UNIFORMITY
Conducting
Guidance for persons conducting services, including altar entry, the bell, singing and preaching.
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they render to people. On the other hand, those who are blessed should . not fail to provide good things to visioners. 1~hat is rlot a sin. Try to .reciprocate the grace of God with carnal things. In Brotherhood, we do not burn candle, or incence. We do not make sacrifice of any kind. Apart from fasting and prayer. Nobody is authorised to make holy oil by himself. Do not bath people by 12 mid- night or any time in the form of spiritual work. Do not go to river side in tt1e form of spiritual work, in order to make a sacrifice. Do not throw the love feast on the top of the roof or any where else in form of spiritual work. Do not give vision concernin~ wit- chcraft, juju, coffin, death in Brotherhood. All spiritual works should not be done in secret or in a private room, you have no right to ask someone to go -naked before healing~ CONDUCTING: If you go on ministry work to an- other bethel, - and you intend to conduct service. First of all get permission from the person in-charge of the bethel, before you enter the altar. It is not good to go and lie or sit down in the altar, waiting for the time of serJice. Conducting of service should not be by struggling but by negotiation. Jingle the bell immediately you enter the altar, kneel down and pray silently. Jingle the second one, the angels des- cend and the setvice starts. You can see now that to go and sit down in the altar without doing ar1ything is Q
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not permitted. Some brethren do make mistake 'Nhen leaving the altar and waving of hand. It is wrong to wait till the end of the first stanza of the song raised by conductor before waving hand. Immediately you raise a song, wave hand at the same time and move out from the altar. That is the correct way and the Holy Father does it: that~· way Both brothers and sisters, even children can conduct services ·from the big altar. Order of conducting meeting. In starting the second part of a meeting, ring the bell only once, then sing. Father lead us aright, 0 the loving Shepherd''. Then Prayer and the meeting starts. Conductors should try to hold to the topic of the . I texts quoted when preaching. We should not fix I I time limit for preaching.; We believe that anybody in I the altar is being control led by the Holy Spirit. What- f ~ ever he does is between him and the Holy Spirit. Do not impute sin on such a person so that you do not clash with the Hol_y Spirit. It is not proper to interrupt or challenge a conductor on the altar by members while preachin_g. People should be very carefully so as not to clash with the Holy Spirit. TURBAN: Using of turbans for prayer was not au- ' by the Holy Father. He has never directed torised