Call and Response

A story I heard maybe in my college days.  I have no idea if it is true, but I would like to believe it is.  I can envision the scene and would like my voice to be in the response.

In the days when the Russian government was closing down churches and declaring religion to be inferior to the state, the leaders held an assembly in one town.  On the podium were Communist leaders and the local priest of the Orthodox church.  After the Communist had made his speech about churches no longer being open, he called the priest to the podium to announce the closing of the church in that town.  The priest walked to the podium, raised his hands, and his voice rang out.  “Christ is Risen!” The crowd arose and with one voice responded.  “He is risen indeed.  Hallelujah.”

Therefore God has highly exalted him and given him  the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.   Philippians 2:10 – 11

 

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