Sanctions for Midweek Nonattendance?

While this sounds ridiculous, I don't see how it's much different than a church who requires six months attendance before being considered for membership, or one who requires classes to be taken before being considered for membership. Both of these concepts were completely alien to me before moving from the South to the Upper Midwest, but every single church up here (Southern Baptist, non-denominational, Lutheran, and so on) that I've attended has one or both of these requirements. In the churches I was familiar with in the South, your statement of faith and intent during the invitation was really all that was required (assuming you'd been baptized in a similar church). To me, these extra requirements are annoying. I don't recall the Bible specifying that churches could impose requirements beyond salvation and baptism to be a member.

 

Could that be a case where the clergy need to feel needed?

 

First programs and now clergy. Are you part of the house church movement?

 

No, but what I do as Jesus did with His disciples works in any location at any time and teaches people to spiritually reproduce themselves.

 

Yes well I am sure you have the only biblical and possible way to do it. May the Lord keep you in all things.

 

Instead of looking at programs I have chosen to follow Jesus' commands and His ways of doing things. You know of any improvement on Jesus' methodology of making disciples and the message He delivered?

 

Jesus gave the method, message, and showed His disciples how to carry out his plan. Know of anything better than that?