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I changed it to thumbs up, my apologies.  First time posting, figuring out how everything functions.

Good points and I'm not saying it was some righteous biblical thing, I was just thinking where the idea originally came from.  I wasn't exploring whether it was good or best, whether it gave people (by some of the comments it did!) a sense of  lay/leader hierarchy.  When FBC first started the...

This is just a thought, but do you think it's possible the idea was from Nehemiah?  Nehemiah 8:1-8 here's v. 4. Nehemiah 8:4  And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah...