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Re: Cutting Back On 'Church' Services
Why do so many churches have two services on Sunday? There is absolutely no biblical basis for it.
I would much rather go to one great Sunday service and spend the rest of the day truly in rest and with family to honor God than go to one service, eat, maybe take a nap, then go back to church that evening.
From a practical standpoint construction, insurance, utilities, and other costs have risen so much churches began to realize that they could not keep on building sanctuary's to hold everybody at one time. It only makes sense to hold multiple service on Sundays for different groups of people.
My church has 3 Sunday services which is one more than traditional old time Pentecost so it is not a matter of the leadership being lazy and not wanting to have more than one church service. It is a desire to minister to as many people as possible on Sunday. My church would have to have a sanctuary 3 times the size of the one we have now to have everybody meet at once and twice on Sunday.
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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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