Where this Sunday Morning and Sunday Evening Service schedule came from or when it started?
Before anyone gets mad at me, let me first say I'm a Christian and believe that the verse about not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together means just what it says. Fellowship with other Christians and sitting under the preaching of God's Word is very important in the growth of a believer's spiritual life.
When we moved to Paulding, I was still the music minister and youth minister at the Church we attended in Marietta. It got to where we started staying with my in-laws on Sunday afternoon because it was just not practical to drive home to Paulding and sit around for 2 hours before we went back. Currently I work on Sunday, so it's not really an issue right now.
But our pastor...and I LOVED his preaching....used to say:
"People who attend church on Sunday morning really love the church.....Those who attend on Sunday evening really love the preacher and those who are willing to attend on Wednesday night really love the Lord"
Now me doing the music AND the youth, it was a given I had to be there, but sometimes I think "some" pastors get a little too bent out of shape about people not being there at every single service. What if there were services every day? Going 3 times per week would make you a heathen!
But really, I wonder where this came from. I suppose in communities of old, there wasn't much to do on Sunday. Not only that, but churches were probably in walking distance from the house, not 30 miles away.
Before anyone gets mad at me, let me first say I'm a Christian and believe that the verse about not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together means just what it says. Fellowship with other Christians and sitting under the preaching of God's Word is very important in the growth of a believer's spiritual life.
When we moved to Paulding, I was still the music minister and youth minister at the Church we attended in Marietta. It got to where we started staying with my in-laws on Sunday afternoon because it was just not practical to drive home to Paulding and sit around for 2 hours before we went back. Currently I work on Sunday, so it's not really an issue right now.
But our pastor...and I LOVED his preaching....used to say:
"People who attend church on Sunday morning really love the church.....Those who attend on Sunday evening really love the preacher and those who are willing to attend on Wednesday night really love the Lord"
Now me doing the music AND the youth, it was a given I had to be there, but sometimes I think "some" pastors get a little too bent out of shape about people not being there at every single service. What if there were services every day? Going 3 times per week would make you a heathen!
But really, I wonder where this came from. I suppose in communities of old, there wasn't much to do on Sunday. Not only that, but churches were probably in walking distance from the house, not 30 miles away.