Church CLOSED for the Summer

[Apocrypha]

ive been pushing gently for us to get rid of Sunday morning and evening service and put all our energy on having one really quality 2pm Sunday service and in another 12 months or so doing split repeating services at 1pm and 3:30pm if we continue to grow at our current rate.

the whole tradition of sunday morning/evening worship comes from a agricultural society. People would do their morning chores, let the cows out and then go to church. They would come back home have lunch, bring in the cows from feeding and then go to evening service. it just carried over into our traditions as we mastered our food supply and had the industrial revolution due to surplus food allowing for economic specialization.

Besides, its better to have a afternoon service anyhow since you can have more preparation time in the afternoons for sunday school, music, and ministry team meetings beforehand. plus everyone gets out before dinner time anyhow. i think we forget how hard having 3 services a week is on bi-vocational pastors and how much energy it saps from since saturday is usually a work day to clean up the house and do chores and sunday just becomes another one but for church works instead of being a day of rest like God intended it to be.

[Cindy]

Originally Posted by erikwebster

ive been pushing gently for us to get rid of Sunday morning and evening service and put all our energy on having one really quality 2pm Sunday service and in another 12 months or so doing split repeating services at 1pm and 3:30pm if we continue to grow at our current rate.

the whole tradition of sunday morning/evening worship comes from a agricultural society. People would do their morning chores, let the cows out and then go to church. They would come back home have lunch, bring in the cows from feeding and then go to evening service. it just carried over into our traditions as we mastered our food supply and had the industrial revolution due to surplus food allowing for economic specialization.

Besides, its better to have a afternoon service anyhow since you can have more preparation time in the afternoons for sunday school, music, and ministry team meetings beforehand. plus everyone gets out before dinner time anyhow. i think we forget how hard having 3 services a week is on bi-vocational pastors and how much energy it saps from since saturday is usually a work day to clean up the house and do chores and sunday just becomes another one but for church works instead of being a day of rest like God intended it to be.

I would prefer an afternoon service on Sunday myself. I could attend church more often if we did. It is really hard for me to attend a morning service.