Becoming Seventh Day Adventist
 

Okay, not really but I will be attending a Saturday service instead of a Sunday one in a couple of months.

Our church has plans to expand but it looks like the additional space at our location won't be ready for close to a year so we need to add an additional service now.

Currently we have 3 Sunday services, 9 am, 11 am, and 6 pm. In a couple of months our new schedule will be Saturday's 5 pm and 7 pm and Sunday's 9am & 11 am for a net gain of one service.

I hear stories of Saturday services being a great success some places and dismal failures in others. I think since our town has a large University, and thus a lot of young people, it will be a success. Time will tell.

For the first time in my life Sunday's will truly be a day of rest and time with the family!

I am thinking we might also attract some fringe adventists who are Spirit filled in beliefs so don't fit in the traditional Seventh Day Adventist church.

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You seriously may get seventh day adventists come out. One thing about them is they love indepth word.

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We go through the Bible book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse so you are probably right!

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And hopefully some Apostolics will see the truth about "immortal soul".

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you might also get some seventh day apostolics which only attend on sunday because there are no Sabbath churches around.

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Most Adventists would go to a Sabbath keeping church, not just a church that has additional Saturday services. The only Adventists who are dissatisfied with the SDA church enough to go somewhere else are those who are generally old-school Adventists who feel the SDA church is sliding into apostasy.

SDA religion is based on Ellen White's supposed prophecies, not just doing church on Saturday.

You will, however, probably get a lot of folks coming looking for something to do on Saturday, college students etc.

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CC1 - has your church considered breaking up into smaller daughter works? Surely there are men within the congregation who would be qualified to begin daughter works/churches around the town, instead of trying to fit that many people into one building?

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Our town is a relatively small one with a population of around 100,000 so there is not a geographical imperative to move to daughter works yet. We are pretty much no more than 20 minutes from anywhere in our town.

I am sure that once we fill up the additional space we will be adding later this year we very well may move to opening daughter works. We are developing men in the ministry who could take that mission on.

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Saturday services seem to be all the rage here in Dallas. we dont do it because we dont need additional services yet. but if we got to the point where it was a necessity, i would advocate adding a Sunday service

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When I Pastored a home Church we had meetings on Saturday night and Sunday morning. Other Churches used to do this too.

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I think since there is no biblical imperative to meet on Sunday having a Saturday service as an alternative is a good idea if it can be justified.

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Ferdinand,

Originally we were going to add one Saturday evening service to the three Sunday services we have now (9am, 11 am & 6pm). However in figuring out how best not to wear out the folks who work / volunteer each weekend it was decided that having two evening services on Saturday (5 pm & 7pm) and two morning services on Sunday (9 am & 11 am) would be best and I agree.

Now the folks that will have their Saturday evenings dedicated to helping with two services will have Sunday evenings off.

BTW we are offering Sunday School at all four services so that in itself is a huge volunteer effort.

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Is your pastor the only one doing the preaching?

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Yes except for every once in a awhile when the Executive Pastor preaches. The Pastor concentrates on the pulpit ministry and overall direction / management of the church while the Executive Pastor concentrates on the day to day management of the staff and volunteers, etc.

Interesting trivia is that both the Pastor and Executive Pastor's college degrees are in English! At some point both taught school with the Executive Pastor having been a High School English teacher for a few years until he gave that up for full time ministry a year or two ago as our church grew.

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I rather miss the old Saturday Church Rallies we used to have once a month or so back in Iowa. They've been doing something similar around here called 'CommUnity Service' (capital U intended) between the three works in town, but those are held on Sunday night. And with my working 3rd shift, I can't always make it then (hopefully that will change soon, though).

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Well, there's hope for me yet, then. :yourock