Attending Bickertonite Church Services (Josh Gehly 4 of 6)

What's it like to attend a Bickertonite Church service? Rick Bennett (LDS) & Josh Gehly (Bickertonite) share their experiences attending the Church of Jesus Christ. Did you know that each week, they ask the congregation if they would like to receive a blessing by laying on of hands? Find out more in our next conversation... https://youtu.be/U6c4aoMblMM Don’t miss our other conversations with Josh: https://gospeltangents.com/people/josh-gehly   Copyright © 2024 Gospel Tangents All Rights Reserved Except for book reviews, no content may be reproduced without written permission GT  0:35 It's so fun. Going back both to my meeting in Florida, as well as when I attended Reid's baptism a couple of months ago, in both cases, and I believe you do this every week. Correct me if I'm wrong. You have what we would [call,] I guess, the first hour is usually Sunday school. Is that right? [You meet] for about an hour.   Josh  01:00  Yes, we'd like to do a scripture study. We like to give something for the kids. Usually that's happening first.  GT  01:07  And so that's typically Bible, Book of Mormon preaching sort of thing.   Josh  01:12  Yes, very much so engaged; Hopefully, it's done, right, unless it's really, really—the spirit takes over, which we're okay with that, usually, it's Q&A. Let's read these verses. Let's talk about them. What does this mean for you? What's the Lord speaking here? It can be really, if it's done right, hopefully, we're really engaging with the congregation where they feel a part of the lesson.  GT  01:37  And so then the second hour, you usually have what we would call a sacrament meeting. I don't know if you call it communion or sacrament.  Josh  01:48  Communion is fine. Often, I call it the Lord's Supper. It’s all fair.  GT  01:53  Do you do that every week?  Josh  01:54  Every Sunday, yes.  GT  01:55  Okay, so that's similar to ours.  Josh  01:56  Sometimes we have the freedom. This is something that's a little unique. If there's a meeting, and a minister feels to have communion on a Wednesday, great!  GT  02:09  Okay.  Josh  02:10  Now, does that happen? Not very often. But that is certainly allowed. We have done that. I mean, it’s under inspiration. When the Spirit speaks, we really want to be the church that Moroni talks about, where he says, "Our meetings were conducted after the manner of the workings of the spirit, whether to pray, whether to preach or exhort, to supplicate, to sing." We want to be that. And so yeah, we have [in our meetings,] you're going to see a Sunday School lesson. You're going to see some type of worship service. There is going to be the Lord's Supper there. Usually, there's going to be testimonies, opportunity for people stand up and praise God. You're going to have the opportunity to have hands laid on you for strength or for anointing, for healing. Those things are all offered, and typical.  But the way that might get mixed up, or on a random Wednesday, you come in and all of a sudden, the table is set. And now we're in for a spiritual good time together.  GT  03:10  Okay. And that was what I found interesting was, we would have a testimony meeting once a [month] and in our church, it's almost always on the first Sunday. Sometimes we'll move it to the second Sunday or the last Sunday, whatever. But typically, it's the first Sunday of the month, we will have a testimony meeting. But it seems like you have a testimony meeting, or what we would call testimony meeting every week.  Josh  03:33  Yeah. Our meetings are not short. If you want to critique us and walk out and say, "That was long." I'm going to be like, yeah, that's us. So, we have testimony almost every Sunday. It's just pretty standard. It allows the congregation to stand up and glorify God for what he's done for them.  GT  03:55  Right. Oh, well, and also, just to make sure that people are clear on this, you don't say, "Brother Bennett,