2 major Calif. churches going Back to Sunday Nights - Page 14

South of I 90 · #**131** 04-30-2007, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by CC1

All of them from the sound of it.

Well if its the one on I-10, you'll get a 4 hour dose of church in one setting.

Jack Shephard · #**132** 04-30-2007, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by CC1

I figure God can tell me whatever he wants to whenever he wants to!! You could run yourself ragged if you based going to church on a fear of missing something God wanted to tell you.

You could find churches with services at times other than yoru own and make church as close to a seven day a week thing as possible!

Christ Church does offer a Sunday night service. Lately it has been used as an opportunitiy for the younger ministers in the church who don't get a chance to preach in the main services to preach.

Last Sunday night there was a healing and deliverance service wtih that visiting Chinese Christian leader Pastor Yun.

Typically CC has used Sunday nights for things like these.

CC1, are those night services typically more a traditional pentecostal service? Or similar to the AM services? I saw about the healing service and I saw about the younger minsters preaching, but is it a more open pentecostal type service. keep in mind I have never been to service there though I have watched on the web.

CC1 · #**133** 04-30-2007, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by JTULLOCK

CC1, are those night services typically more a traditional pentecostal service? Or similar to the AM services? I saw about the healing service and I saw about the younger minsters preaching, but is it a more open pentecostal type service. keep in mind I have never been to service there though I have watched on the web.

I don't know as I typically don't go to Sunday night service. It is about a 40 minute drive for us and I have a conviction against Sunday night services.

I hate to violate that personal conviction.

I don't think ANY service at CC would approximate most old time Pentecostal services though as St. Matthew can attest from his visit this past Sunday we are not "dead". We do raise our hands a lot and you do hear praying out loud and hearty "amens" and "hallelujahs". Just not anything like most UPC churches where many times it seems a competition for who can be the loudest and most boistrous.

Also keep in mind that many of our young ministers do not have a UPC background so they are not from that screaming, emotional culture.

Even those raised in CC are so young they don't know CC from the UPC days.

I do know that more emotional / boistrous ministries like Eddie Cupples and John Ragsdale have preached Sunday night services over the years and I have to assume they were more lively than usual.

#**134** 04-30-2007, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by South of I 90

Which church do you attend in LC?

I go to The Moss Bluff Pentecostals pastored by Tim Mahoney.

http://www.themossbluffpentecostals.com

Thad · #**135** 04-30-2007, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by CC1

I don't know as I typically don't go to Sunday night service. It is about a 40 minute drive for us and I have a conviction against Sunday night services.

I hate to violate that personal conviction.

I don't think ANY service at CC would approximate most old time Pentecostal services though as St. Matthew can attest from his visit this past Sunday we are not "dead". We do raise our hands a lot and you do hear praying out loud and hearty "amens" and "hallelujahs". Just not anything like most UPC churches where many times it seems a competition for who can be the loudest and most boistrous.
Also keep in mind that many of our young ministers do not have a UPC background so they are not from that screaming, emotional culture.Even those raised in CC are so young they don't know CC from the UPC days.

I do know that more emotional / boistrous ministries like Eddie Cupples and John Ragsdale have preached Sunday night services over the years and I have to assume they were more lively than usual.

THAT WAS JUST UGLY

#**136** 04-30-2007, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by South of I 90

Well if its the one on I-10, you'll get a 4 hour dose of church in one setting.

That is where my daughter and son in law worship and I occasionally slip in after our church is over on Sunday nights and catch some worship and all the preaching... usually their services are around 2.5 to 3 hours. The start at 7 on Sunday night and are out by 9:30 or 10:00.

My kids have really made huge strides in their walk with God since going there. They love it!

CC1 · #**137** 04-30-2007, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Thad

that was just ugly

You may receive it that way but that is my honest personal experience. I do not mean it to be ugly.

#**138** 04-30-2007, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by CC1

All of them from the sound of it.

Not far from the truth. Bro. Nugent has his midweek service on Thursday night and Bro. Ewing is usually just getting rocking when we get out of service in Moss Bluff. The others I go when their services don't interfere with my home church services.