Wisdom and ideas, please

ChTatum · #1 11-18-2007, 09:21 PM

We have decided to try going to just one service on Sundays for awhile, expanding our morning service and also our Wednesday night service.

How many of you attend a church where there is only one Sunday service, and what is your feeling towards it?

PastorD · #2 11-18-2007, 09:27 PM

We do it and love it. Just know that once you go to one, you will never get the evening back. You might get a few, but never what you have now. I say this only because you said you would do it for awhile.

MissBrattified · #3 11-19-2007, 07:41 AM

I like it, although I do miss the evening service sometimes. I agree with PP and FB on this point; once you cut the evening service, it will be next to impossible to get folks to attend again, because they will fill that night with other things. (Which isn't bad, especially if they use it for family time, or to fellowship with new converts or unsaved friends.)

LaVonne · #4 11-19-2007, 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by MissBrattified

I like it, although I do miss the evening service sometimes. I agree with PP and FB on this point; once you cut the evening service, it will be next to impossible to get folks to attend again, because they will fill that night with other things. (Which isn't bad, especially if they use it for family time, or to fellowship with new converts or unsaved friends.)

Right...we may be moving again and if so, the church we will attend has two services on Sunday, it will be hard to go back to that schedule.

CC1 · #5 11-18-2007, 09:29 PM

It was clear to me once I saw the avatar some time ago where you had bushy facial hair that you were on the road to compromise.

This confirms that. What a shame. How dare you violate the biblical principles set down for two services on Sunday....er.....wait, never mind.

ChTatum · #6 11-18-2007, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by CC1

It was clear to me once I saw the avatar some time ago where you had bushy facial hair that you were on the road to compromise.

This confirms that. What a shame. How dare you violate the biblical principles set down for two services on Sunday....er.....wait, never mind.

Awwww, go ride your bike. Looking for wisdom and ideas here, not jokes from someone who won't even meet you when you come to visit their church!

CC1 · #7 11-18-2007, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by ChTatum

Awwww, go ride your bike. Looking for wisdom and ideas here, not jokes from someone who won't even meet you when you come to visit their church!

As I recall you didn't even tell me you had visited my church until AFTER the fact!!!!

ChTatum · #8 11-18-2007, 10:21 PM

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As I recall you didn't even tell me you had visited my church until AFTER the fact!!!!

Must be Alzheimers, brother.

We were going to meet before service, but I got lost on Old Hickory and ended up not getting there until wel into the service.

Just yanking your chain previously!

Sherri · #9 11-18-2007, 10:25 PM

We only have morning services (9 & 11) and no Sunday evening service. On some Sunday evenings, we have Relevant Classes that last for four weeks at a time, or sometimes a special "Encounter" Service with a prophet or some other special speaker. Tonight, they just finished their fourth week of elective classes, which have been really popular.

Our Wed. evening services have become more like our Sunday night services used to be; very intense spiritually. Longer praise & worship, waiting on God, gifts in action, etc.

CC1 · #10 11-18-2007, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by ChTatum

Must be Alzheimers, brother.

We were going to meet before service, but I got lost on Old Hickory and ended up not getting there until wel into the service.

Just yanking your chain previously!

LOL!!! I remembered it was YOUR fault, just not why. Hopefully you can come back again sometime and we can grab a cup of coffee before or after service.