Sunday Night Church

[rgcraig]

Bro. Black's church here in Memphis has a 2:00 pm service and they get out around 4:00 - 4:30.

[Ron]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

Bro. Black's church here in Memphis has a 2:00 pm service and they get out around 4:00 - 4:30.

Really?

[CC1]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

Bro. Black's church here in Memphis has a 2:00 pm service and they get out around 4:00 - 4:30.

The longest Sunday I ever spent at a UPC church was my only visit to the Memphis church in the mid to late 70's when NP Urshan was pastoring.

The folks I was visiting were in the choir so they had to be there at 8:30 or 9 am. Then they had two complete Sunday am services.

First was Sunday School complete with preliminaries, testimonies, singing, and about an hour of teaching. Then came Sunday morning worship service with everything done all over a gain except with an hour of preaching (louder more boistrous than the earlier teaching).

when it was all said and done we didn't leave church until about 1:30 pm after arrivng 8:30 or 9 am that morning. I love church but five hours is beyond my butts endurance limit. (not to mention my mind.). I literally kept dozing off by halfway through the second one hour sermon of the morning.

[Sherri]

Originally Posted by CC1

The longest Sunday I ever spent at a UPC church was my only visit to the Memphis church in the mid to late 70's when NP Urshan was pastoring.

The folks I was visiting were in the choir so they had to be there at 8:30 or 9 am. Then they had two complete Sunday am services.

First was Sunday School complete with preliminaries, testimonies, singing, and about an hour of teaching. Then came Sunday morning worship service with everything done all over a gain except with an hour of preaching (louder more boistrous than the earlier teaching).

when it was all said and done we didn't leave church until about 1:30 pm after arrivng 8:30 or 9 am that morning. I love church but five hours is beyond my butts endurance limit. (not to mention my mind.). I literally kept dozing off by halfway through the second one hour sermon of the morning.

Well, welcome to my world every week!!!!

[Sarah]

Well, I'm from the old school, and I just can't imagine not having Sunday Night church. However, if I was still working, and had small children going to school, and the option was available to have or not have church on Sun night, I might be singing a different tune!

[CC1]

Originally Posted by Sarah

Well, I'm from the old school, and I just can't imagine not having Sunday Night church. However, if I was still working, and had small children going to school, and the option was available to have or not have church on Sun night, I might be singing a different tune!

So you fall asleep during Eddie's 2nd Sunday sermon? LOL!!!!

[Maximilia]

I'm thinking the Saturday night service idea could be great in a lot of areas. We had Sunday afternoon service and I felt weird about it for a long time--but came to like Sunday afternoons and loved Sunday evening time with my family. Living in a large expensive metro area, I'm driving quite a distance and paying tolls to get to church. I'm thinking with the gas prices, etc., many may need to consider going to one service but then there's the nagging scripture of not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together, and so much more as ye see the day approaching. I don't know--I think we have to do whatever is necessary in this time, and I think leadership should have a firm understanding of the high cost for some.

I really get annoyed with a lot of preaching about being so consumed with your job, etc., when most of us have to work and need all the hours we can get just to keep things afloat.

[DanielR]

Originally Posted by Maximilia

I'm thinking with the gas prices, etc., many may need to consider going to one service but then there's the nagging scripture of not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together, and so much more as ye see the day approaching.

I feel that that verse is one of the most abused scriptures in the Bible, it is often used to put a guilt trip on people that don't show up every time the doors are open. I don't believe that to mean that at all. If a person makes it a practice not to get together with other believers (church, fellowship or otherwise) then maybe this verse needs to be pulled out, but to use it to say everyone needs to be there every time the doors are open is over the top and an extreeme view the the intent of this verse.

My job dictates that I can't be at church very often, I'm lucky to get to 2 services in a month, more commonly I can only make 1 service a month. Am I forsaking the assembling? I think not. Do folks who miss Church every so often because they take some fun time forsaking the assembling? Again, I think not. I feel that if a person is at least getting together with other Christians on a regular basis (even if it is just a dinner every couple of weeks) and discusses the works and wonders of God, I don't see how that person could be forsaking the assembling because they are in this case even if they are not actually in church. There is a wide range of reasons that some Christian either can't or don't go to church very often, but that doesn't mean that they are forsaking the assembling...although that is often the case with some people.

[DanielR]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

Bro. Black's church here in Memphis has a 2:00 pm service and they get out around 4:00 - 4:30.

I like the afternoon services as well. I n the summer it gives me plenty of time to get back from my saturday night camping trip without being rushed to make it to sunday service.

[Jekyll]

Originally Posted by DanielR

I feel that that verse is one of the most abused scriptures in the Bible, it is often used to put a guilt trip on people that don't show up every time the doors are open. I don't believe that to mean that at all. If a person makes it a practice not to get together with other believers (church, fellowship or otherwise) then maybe this verse needs to be pulled out, but to use it to say everyone needs to be there every time the doors are open is over the top and an extreeme view the the intent of this verse.

My job dictates that I can't be at church very often, I'm lucky to get to 2 services in a month, more commonly I can only make 1 service a month. Am I forsaking the assembling? I think not. Do folks who miss Church every so often because they take some fun time forsaking the assembling? Again, I think not. I feel that if a person is at least getting together with other Christians on a regular basis (even if it is just a dinner every couple of weeks) and discusses the works and wonders of God, I don't see how that person could be forsaking the assembling because they are in this case even if they are not actually in church. There is a wide range of reasons that some Christian either can't or don't go to church very often, but that doesn't mean that they are forsaking the assembling...although that is often the case with some people.

Good to know that God works and moves on our carnal fleshly worldly time.

Originally Posted by DanielR

I like the afternoon services as well. I n the summer it gives me plenty of time to get back from my saturday night camping trip without being rushed to make it to sunday service.

This is what it is about, folks, spending time with the ole family outside of the church service, feeding our appetites!