Is this an old fashion ideal?

[Salty]

Found this on Facebook:
"You can call me old-fashioned and outdated, but I still believe in having Sunday school, Sunday morning service, Sunday evening service, midweek Bible study, discipleship classes throughout the week, soul-winning, street preaching, and being involved in jail and prison ministry."

What say you ?

 

[Scarlett O.]

I say for someone to be involved in all of those things every single week will wear you out and burn you out.

I say if a church wants to offer all of those things and more and allow the Spirit of God to move people into where He is leading them to serve, that's fine.

 

[Ascetic X]

Found this on Facebook:
"You can call me old-fashioned and outdated, but I still believe in having Sunday school, Sunday morning service, Sunday evening service, midweek Bible study, discipleship classes throughout the week, soul-winning, street preaching, and being involved in jail and prison ministry."

What say you ?

Any church that has only Sunday morning services seems weak and dying to me. All these studies, events, ministries, and classes are mandatory for a Bible based church. I would also add Wednesday prayer meetings, new member classes, devout book clubs, and food / clothing pantries.

 

[Ascetic X]

I say for someone to be involved in all of those things every single week will wear you out and burn you out.

I say if a church wants to offer all of those things and more and allow the Spirit of God to move people into where He is leading them to serve, that's fine.

This is why a pastor should never be the only leader in the church. Others should handle these necessary activities, as you suggested. Besides, to have all these would only require working 5 days a week if one person led them all. Why should a pastor work only one day a week as far as public services?

 

[Salty]

A pastor works much more than one day a week

 

[Salty]

One point of the OP - is that many churches are not having Sunday night services anymore?
Good, Bad, indifferent?

 

[Jerome]

Charles Spurgeon, "A Dirge for the Downgrade" (1889):

"Look at your half-Sunday professors—content with only one service and weary of that! How is it with many Christian people as to meetings for prayer? Prayer Meetings are the very soul of Church work and they bring down the blessing upon all our spiritual agencies. Yet they are despised by our high-fliers. In many Chapels two services in the week have proved too great an effort for the constitution of the ministers and too much of a tax upon the time of their hearers"

 

[Reynolds]

Found this on Facebook:
"You can call me old-fashioned and outdated, but I still believe in having Sunday school, Sunday morning service, Sunday evening service, midweek Bible study, discipleship classes throughout the week, soul-winning, street preaching, and being involved in jail and prison ministry."

What say you ?

I agree. I don't think street preaching is usually effective, but All In on the rest of it.

 

[Reynolds]

A pastor works much more than one day a week

A good pastor indeed does.

 

[Ben1445]

Found this on Facebook:
"You can call me old-fashioned and outdated, but I still believe in having Sunday school, Sunday morning service, Sunday evening service, midweek Bible study, discipleship classes throughout the week, soul-winning, street preaching, and being involved in jail and prison ministry."

What say you ?

It is sad that this is able to be considered old-fashioned.