Taking notes during a sermon is wrong? Right?

[Reformed Catholic]

Brother, respectfully, why do you continue to press this issue? Whether or not a person should take notes during a sermon depends on what will allow them individually to best understand the sermon and worship God, as I’m sure MLJ and Keller would agree with, considering they were directing this advice to their own individual congregations. Considering the Word does not give any rule, whether explicitly or implicitly, on this subject, at this point I believe you are trying (whether you mean to or not) to bind the consciences of those who prefer to take notes during the sermons according to the opinions of men. Godly, wise, and qualified men, but men nonetheless. Your attitude in some of these posts is beginning to seem elitist.

To your last statement, if this is what you find important, I think your theological priorities need to be realigned.

1) When have I said that taking notes must be outright forbidden? Does asking about the benefits and dangers of a practice even remotely relate to binding consciences?
2) "as I'm sure MLJ and Keller would agree with" when faced with evidence to the contrary is a faulty and biased assumption. They specifically discouraged against it brother, for the same reason one would discourage against being on your phone. They believed it distracted from the proper end of sermons.
3) Your claim that my "attitude in some of these posts is beginning to seem elitist" is too vague for me to anything with. Can you give me a specific example?
4) MLJ and Tim Keller seemed to have found it important. I am in good company. What a person does while hearing a sermon, whether that be talking (as the Westminster Directory warns against) or being on your phone, or writing down things that could distract you is part of living a Christian life.

 

[Polanus1561]

This thread seems to have run its course irrespective of your views on this issue

 

[Sam Jer]

For me, these critiques of note taking are true when I am at my best. But usually I am not, and the more tired or distracted I am, the more note taking helps

 

[Reformed Catholic]

For me, these critiques of note taking are true when I am at my best. But usually I am not, and the more tired or distracted I am, the more note taking helps

Same actually. Many people here have read into my posts that I am advocating for the forbidding of note-taking, when I said no such thing. I even took notes this Sunday because I was feeling sleepy.

 

[Ploutos]

Same actually. Many people here have read into my posts that I am advocating for the forbidding of note-taking, when I said no such thing. I even took notes this Sunday because I was feeling sleepy.

We know you're not advocating for the forbidding of note-taking. It's the "well it's not a forbidden sin BUT" mentality that we have an issue with. We also either 1) disagree with MLJ/Keller or 2) think their remarks were directed toward a specific context and don't need to be generalized beyond that, and you seem to be rather offended by both of those.