From the other topic on clapping hands the following question was asked and can now be discussed here:

Is lifting hands OK in church?

I'll say one pro for it; it does not make a lot of noies (like clapping) and is therefore not as much of an interuption or distraction.

I would say no. It apart of the celebration worship that is enter the SDA Churches.

While attending a small country SDA church in Texas for about a year two ministers and their families came to give Sabbath service. One was from California;the other Texas but he had been visiting a Baptist Congregation to teach them Adventist truths but got caught up in the whirlwind of their type of worship. They tried to introduce that Sabbath the celebration worship with the saying of I am saved, lifting up hands, clapping,ect.

I was thankful that this little church rejected it.

Is there any scripture against pryaing with lifted hands? An appropriate list of scripture references could help the topic.

/Thomas

So, next time your child or grand child runs to you with uplifted hands because they want to picked up and held by you, are you going to rject their pleadings because that is outside your worship box???

My ministry takes me across many denominational lines. While I do not like some of the things other folks do in church, there are somethings I do like and have incorperated them into our worship services.

If we do not stand with them when(His sheep in other folds) they are right, how will they listen to us when they are wrong?

Do not misunderstand what is written. We are not to go to Babylon to get our information on how to run our churches, whether Pentecostal or Catholic or Methodist.

If a person wants to lift their hands up and ask for the speaking in tongues, that is their business but DO NOT bring this evil into our SDA churches because it will make them corrupt in the sight of God.

And Barry, I'm surprised at your comments about rejecting ones children when they lift up their hands to us as parents.

We are speaking about lifting up of hands in a church setting. If you want to do this in your SDA church, then DO NOT call it an SDA Church.

I have found myself lifting up my hands, but not in the traditional swaying back and forth. I found in the Bible that it was either king Solomon, or Moses that when they prayed thats what they did. I did this in private by myself while praying to God because I was in a rough spot.
I wont do this at church though because I dont feel like I have to, need to, or suppose that being filled with the Holy Ghost would incline me to do so at church. THats something private between me and The Lord.
God Bless,
Will

These here are the verses on prayer and lifted hands I found in the bible. If anyone knows another one, do post it.

1 Timothy 2:7-9
7And for this purpose I was appointed a herald and an apostle–I am telling the truth, I am not lying–and a teacher of the true faith to the Gentiles.
8I want men everywhere to lift up holy hands in prayer, without anger or disputing.

Lamentations 3:40-42
40 Let us examine our ways and test them,
and let us return to the LORD .
41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands
to God in heaven, and say:
42 "We have sinned and rebelled
and you have not forgiven.

Psalm 141
1 O LORD , I call to you; come quickly to me.
Hear my voice when I call to you.
2 May my prayer be set before you like incense;
may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
3 Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD ;
keep watch over the door of my lips.

Psalm 134
1 Praise the LORD , all you servants of the LORD
who minister by night in the house of the LORD.
2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary
and praise the LORD .
3 May the LORD , the Maker of heaven and earth,
bless you from Zion.

Psalm 119
47 for I delight in your commands
because I love them.
48 I lift up my hands to [a] your commands, which I love,
and I meditate on your decrees.
z Zayin
49 Remember your word to your servant,
for you have given me hope.

Psalm 118
15 Shouts of joy and victory
resound in the tents of the righteous:
"The LORD's right hand has done mighty things!
16 The LORD's right hand is lifted high;
the LORD's right hand has done mighty things!"
17 I will not die but live,
and will proclaim what the LORD has done.

Psalm 63
3 Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.
4 I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands.
5 My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods;
with singing lips my mouth will praise you.

Psalm 28
1 To you I call, O LORD my Rock;
do not turn a deaf ear to me.
For if you remain silent,
I will be like those who have gone down to the pit.
2 Hear my cry for mercy
as I call to you for help,
as I lift up my hands
toward your Most Holy Place.

Nehemiah 8
5 Ezra opened the book. All the people could see him because he was standing above them; and as he opened it, the people all stood up. 6 Ezra praised the LORD , the great God; and all the people lifted their hands and responded, "Amen! Amen!" Then they bowed down and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.

Debbie,
I personally love when my grandchildren come running to Paw Paw with hands lifted up want a pick me up.
Those of us that are in Jesus Christ are His children. Sometimes, many times, we need a pick me up...........

Now Debbie, would you please answer the following questions about your church:

What is the population in the town of the church that you attend?

How many members did you have 1 year ago?

How many members now?

What is the average attendance on Sabbath?

What is the average attendance for prayer meeting?

Thanx for the reply in advance.........Barry