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02-24-2013, 11:30 AM
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Re: Cutting Back On 'Church' Services
Where does the Bible mandate two sunday services ? When did the early church gather together ?
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02-24-2013, 11:56 AM
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Re: Cutting Back On 'Church' Services
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Originally Posted by Scott Hutchinson
Where does the Bible mandate two sunday services ?
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Good question. Let me know if you find the answer. You'll probably have to skip ahead a few hundred years after the death of Christ to find when that started...
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Originally Posted by Scott Hutchinson
When did the early church gather together ?
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From house to house.
Acts 28:30-31 "And Paul dwelt two whole years in HIS OWN HIRED HOUSE, and received all that came in unto him, PREACHING the kingdom of God, and TEACHING those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him."
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02-24-2013, 01:00 PM
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Re: Cutting Back On 'Church' Services
I love Sunday night church. Gonna get a nap here in the minute so I can be ready to have some church tonight.
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02-24-2013, 02:10 PM
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Re: Cutting Back On 'Church' Services
"So much the more" means what?
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02-24-2013, 02:49 PM
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Re: Cutting Back On 'Church' Services
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Originally Posted by Steve Epley
"So much the more" means what?
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Possibly what my church does by having 3 Sunday services but each one for a different congregation?
I am partially kidding. I know you mean we should want to gather together etc. However with the price of real estate, etc churches are learning they have to break the cycle of being held to tradition when it comes to utilizing a church building.
Our church that seats 200 now ministers to about 450 people between our three services each Sunday. In the old model of one morning and one night service each for the same congregation we would have never grown like this and even if we had the church would have had to go in debt to build or lease a building to seat 450.
I know you will probably not admit it but the two services on Sunday is a modern tradition (by modern I mean the last one or two hundred years or so). As a pastor you want people to hear as much of the Word and to worship God as much as possible so I understand your reluctance to deviate from that tradition even though there is no biblical instruction to do it.
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02-24-2013, 03:02 PM
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Re: Cutting Back On 'Church' Services
Where does the bible limit church meetings to once on a Sunday?
Act 2:46 And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,
You aren't a Real Apostolic unless you meet daily...
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02-24-2013, 03:08 PM
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Re: Cutting Back On 'Church' Services
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Originally Posted by Praxeas
Where does the bible limit church meetings to once on a Sunday?
Act 2:46 And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,
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So instead of these "two service on Sunday for the same group of people" folks being super dedicated it turns out they are slackers! If they REALLY were doing right they would be meeting daily. 
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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02-24-2013, 03:30 PM
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Re: Cutting Back On 'Church' Services
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"So much the more" means what?
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I'm might be wrong but I think it means to be faithful in attendance to congregational gatherings as others are unfaithful in these things you be faithful to assemble together.
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02-24-2013, 03:42 PM
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Re: Cutting Back On 'Church' Services
had a good Sunday nap now getting ready for some Good Holy Ghost Sunday night church.
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02-24-2013, 04:19 PM
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Re: Cutting Back On 'Church' Services
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had a good Sunday nap now getting ready for some Good Holy Ghost Sunday night church.
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My Mom called our Sunday nap "sleeping for Jesus"
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