Question about an Apostolic tradition
 

Not being raised in an Apostolic church I have always found it strange that Sunday 'night' services are much more well attended and more... ummm... lively... than Sunday morning services. It appears that almost universally other denominations have the larger more well attended service in the morning.

Anybody know why that is or when it started? Just curious. :)

TIA

Re: Question about an Apostolic tradition
 

Pentecostals were traditionally less affluent and most likely slept later?

Not sure...

Good question.

Re: Question about an Apostolic tradition
 

I guess it's because Sunday morning is 'sunday school time' and focuses more on teaching, whereas Sunday night is 'shockamoo time' and focuses more on music and loud preaching???

Re: Question about an Apostolic tradition
 

I'm not sure why it's like that. Many churches have eliminated their Sunday night services so maybe it's beginning to play out. I do know that eating after Sunday night service was very popular, maybe that had something to do with it.

Re: Question about an Apostolic tradition
 

Ding, ding, ding......we have a winner! However this is ONLY true of predominately white America. Traditionally Sunday morning was for teaching/Sunday School while Sunday night was when the preaching and evangelistic services were conducted. The black churches for the most part have Sunday School and morning worship, with Sunday night being lightly attended by comparison. Hispanic churches traditionally (because many of them were works out of a larger church) have had Sunday afternoon services. (In between the larger church's services)

Re: Question about an Apostolic tradition
 

Sunday, the day of rest:

Sunday School 9a.m.
Worship (preaching) 10a.m.

Eat somewhere 1p.m.

NAP 2:45-3:30p.m.

Choir practice 4:30p.m.
Evangelistic svc 6:00p.m.

Eat somewhere 9:45p.m.

Re: Question about an Apostolic tradition
 

Repeat 52 x per year.

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"Whenever the doors are open!"

Re: Question about an Apostolic tradition
 

you are right about Sunday nights being the more well attended of the two Sunday services. That has been the case for as long as the beginning of time, I think. I know it was like that back in the late '60's and thru the '70's.

We used to have big Sunday School attendance contests to get the big numbers for Sunday mornings. But Sunday nights? That's when people would flock to the church. Especially in the larger churches. In smaller churches, I'm not sure if Sunday nights were better attended. But they were for sure the service that everyone looked forward to the most. If you could only come to one service on Sunday, you would almost always choose the evening service. And it was out of the ordinary for the Holy Ghost to fall on a Sunday morning and for us to have a service with no preaching or teaching. But that wasn't all that unusual on a Sunday evening at all.

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Times are a changing and all the UPC that I know of are having smaller night services for all the services and midweek is almost empty. In fact, many have quit having midweek services.