Do you think Two Church services a month is enough?
 

Do you think Two services a Month would suffice?

Yes. That is about how often I go to church, so I give that amount a hearty two-thumbs up :thumbsup :thumbsup

:D

I doubt if two services a week is enough. Maybe I just need more church? I am in at least bare minimum of 4 services of week.

When we do not go to church for some reason, I miss being there. We missed about a week and a half of services just a short while ago, and it felt so good to be back at church.

Church has turned into a very busy place that requires and demands too much time.

Pastors want to keep you saved by keeping you to busy to think.:nah

In what way?

Once a year would be nice... on a Tues night from 7 to 7:15. Then the rest of the year they could rent out the building to people that thought they needed church 3 or 4 times a week -- you know - to Christians.

To be honest, if I enjoyed church, I probably would want to go more often. But I see it more as a duty or a chore than any real enjoyment. I can't stand to see the focus on programs and fund-raisers and all that junk. I am just not interested in that. Call me selfish if you want (you would certainly not be the first).

Are you saying that one cannot be a Christian and only go to church twice a month?

yep

I am glad I have always loved church and it has never been a burden to go. My schedule-life-habits revolve around church and not me. Always has always will. It is MY CHIEF joy.

Cooper- Do you really believe that 2 services a month can innoculate your children against the influence of our multimedia society and humanist thinking schools? REALLY??? :nah

Could two services a day innoculate his children from the influence of him???:friend :friend :friend Just funning or was I?? I plead the 5th.:aaa

Well at least you are honest about it ;)

I am pretty sure that even if my church attendance didn't disqualify me in your eyes, there would be many other things, such as my TV habits or my cut hair. But I still love ya anyway.

Even the Devil is more faithful to Church!
He is the first one there, and the last to leave.
He never misses a service.:winkgrin

Maybe if you was in church more these other things wouldn't bother you as bad? Just a thought.

Coop, I really think it greatly depends on what level of commitment and devotion the family has at home. If there is none at all then it matters little how often they attend.

Well in that case...forget my former remarks.... :friend

Those things don't bother ME, but they seem to both some of the more conservative.

Just out of curiousity, in your book, why should I go to church anyway, since God doesn't hear my prayers? :)

ROFL!!!!!

Although, really it is more sad than funny.

God help them.

What else is being done the rest of the time to equip the saints to do the work of serving God?

:hmmm

That yoke is not easy and the burnen is heavy.

:smack Careful, God sees the heart.

And once the saints are equipped? I mean, honestly, how long does the spoon-feeding needs to go on? Then need to be trained and then released to work. Just my opinion of course, and such worth very little.

Coon pebbles are falling from the tree top again.

But the statistics are Too many Holiness or UPC children go astray at driving age anyway.

I guess all of the Bible quiz teams, youth camps, Three days a week at church really is the answer.

Well Coop....I guess you and I are the only two that think its OK. I guess we are gonna have to start our own Church. We can be known as the twice-a-month'ers.

Can I be Pastor? It will fit my new roll as an Apostolic Feminist. Pretty Please??? :toofunny

Exactly, as much preaching and teaching I have heard in 17 years how much does someone need?

17 years, 52 weeks a year, 3 times a week, 1-1/2 hour a lesson equals: 3,978 hours of learing.

Keep in mind that you were only allowed to listen, not to ask questions or participate. That's not learning, that memorizing. Scripture is one thing. But the Pastor's opinion is another. :nah

Ever hear of preaching and conviction????????????????? And help-strength-fellowship?????????????
Nearly all serial killers were and are loners. Just a thought.

There is a difference between teaching and learning they are not the same.
Some learn faster other slower much slower and some sad to say never learn.

Oh Bro. E that cracked me up! :toofunny

I appreciate your concern, but I don't think I am a danger to myself or others ;)

Last famous words of Ted Bundy................................:tiphat

What kind of vile, wicked, evil thing is in your heart that you would DARE call the purpose of the "five-fold ministry" (to equip the saints to do the work of serving God) "spoon-feeding"? You're saying that GOD'S PURPOSE for apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers (or, perhaps more correctly, pastor-teachers) is spoon-feeding!

The problem, more often than not, is that the saints don't want to be equipped, they want to sit on their blessed assurance and be spoon-fed. They want to be blessed, made to feel good about themselves, to be ministered to.

Some saints take longer to equip than others (usually because of the saints themselves). As for releasing them, they're to be released when God says to release them (an example is when the Holy Ghost told certain prophets and teachers in Antioch to send Paul and Barnabas on what we call Paul's first missionary journey).

And what are you DOING with all that you have been taught?

Oh Chan, you are so easy to get riled up, and for once I wasn't even trying!

yes, I do think there is a point where what should be "equipping" turns into spoon-feeding. Call me wicked or vile or what have you. (Or course I am sure you already think I am all that just for being a woman who dares to speak her mind...)

I really could care less about what others do. But perhaps I feel that I have been adequately equipped? That is if you think women are even smart enough to understand the Bible, or spiritual enough to have a relationship with God.

Oh well, at least you are predictable.

If you think you've been equipped, then what are you doing about it?

My strong objection was to your equating the BIBLICAL function of equipping the saints with spoon-feeding.

I am glad I have noi lost my first love for God-church-the man of God-Bible-fellowship. He is my dwellingplace no where I occationally visit.

:toofunny