Okay, not really but I will be attending a Saturday service instead of a Sunday one in a couple of months.
Our church has plans to expand but it looks like the additional space at our location won't be ready for close to a year so we need to add an additional service now.
Currently we have 3 Sunday services, 9 am, 11 am, and 6 pm. In a couple of months our new schedule will be Saturday's 5 pm and 7 pm and Sunday's 9am & 11 am for a net gain of one service.
I hear stories of Saturday services being a great success some places and dismal failures in others. I think since our town has a large University, and thus a lot of young people, it will be a success. Time will tell.
For the first time in my life Sunday's will truly be a day of rest and time with the family!
I am thinking we might also attract some fringe adventists who are Spirit filled in beliefs so don't fit in the traditional Seventh Day Adventist church.
__________________ "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"
You seriously may get seventh day adventists come out. One thing about them is they love indepth word.
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"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
You seriously may get seventh day adventists come out. One thing about them is they love indepth word.
We go through the Bible book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse so you are probably right!
__________________ "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"
Okay, not really but I will be attending a Saturday service instead of a Sunday one in a couple of months.
I am thinking we might also attract some fringe adventists who are Spirit filled in beliefs so don't fit in the traditional Seventh Day Adventist church.
you might also get some seventh day apostolics which only attend on sunday because there are no Sabbath churches around.
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**Original Matthew 28:19 Restored**
Most Adventists would go to a Sabbath keeping church, not just a church that has additional Saturday services. The only Adventists who are dissatisfied with the SDA church enough to go somewhere else are those who are generally old-school Adventists who feel the SDA church is sliding into apostasy.
SDA religion is based on Ellen White's supposed prophecies, not just doing church on Saturday.
You will, however, probably get a lot of folks coming looking for something to do on Saturday, college students etc.
CC1 - has your church considered breaking up into smaller daughter works? Surely there are men within the congregation who would be qualified to begin daughter works/churches around the town, instead of trying to fit that many people into one building?
CC1 - has your church considered breaking up into smaller daughter works? Surely there are men within the congregation who would be qualified to begin daughter works/churches around the town, instead of trying to fit that many people into one building?
Our town is a relatively small one with a population of around 100,000 so there is not a geographical imperative to move to daughter works yet. We are pretty much no more than 20 minutes from anywhere in our town.
I am sure that once we fill up the additional space we will be adding later this year we very well may move to opening daughter works. We are developing men in the ministry who could take that mission on.
__________________ "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"
Saturday services seem to be all the rage here in Dallas. we dont do it because we dont need additional services yet. but if we got to the point where it was a necessity, i would advocate adding a Sunday service
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