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Why are Sunday Evening Services Falling By the Wayside?
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We all need to find some sackcloth and ashes. Repent and do the first works.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Bro. James
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Bro. James
I attend a church that runs 80 to around 120 on Sunday mornings with less than 20 on Sunday evenings and Wednesday evenings.
With both parents working full time and all the school activities and family responsibilities including Saturday as a catchup day, I believe not having a Sunday evening service is ok. Make Sunday morning worship important to your family and let Sunday evening be quality family time. I assume that Christian families will be having devotions with their children at home and teaching spiritual values on a regular basis.
I am older now and attend a before Sunday school prayer time , then attend S.S., and worship. I am usually gone 4 1/2 hours on Sunday morning. I'm usually wore out by the time I get home, so I watch Christian programs on Sunday evening.
We can be so busy attending church services and other good Christian activities the family gets neglected.
Just for the record I have spent most of my life attending Sunday AM, PM, And Wednesday prayer meeting. LOL!
With both parents working full time and all the school activities and family responsibilities including Saturday as a catchup day, I believe not having a Sunday evening service is ok. Make Sunday morning worship important to your family and let Sunday evening be quality family time. I assume that Christian families will be having devotions with their children at home and teaching spiritual values on a regular basis.
I am older now and attend a before Sunday school prayer time , then attend S.S., and worship. I am usually gone 4 1/2 hours on Sunday morning. I'm usually wore out by the time I get home, so I watch Christian programs on Sunday evening.
We can be so busy attending church services and other good Christian activities the family gets neglected.
Just for the record I have spent most of my life attending Sunday AM, PM, And Wednesday prayer meeting. LOL!
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Mrs. Rolf and I have seen this happen to more than a few families.
Attending church services are not the cause of family neglect. That is absurd. There are a great many things that cause family neglect. Church is not one of them.
Rev Mitchell, in the church circles I grew up in there was something going on at church nearly 4 to 5 times a week and you were judged if you were not there every time the doors were open. In our circles, church did hinder family life.
I'm not against Sunday evening services as I was a pastor's wife for 36 years and attended services 3 times a week. My husband would not normally schedule something on both Friday and Saturday night so people would have some quality time with their families.
May God have compassion on your long-suffering soul!!! :applause:
I Hope my wife makes it that long! :smilewinkgrin:
SERIOUSLY, EVERYONE WHO IS READING THIS NEEDS TO MAKE IT A POINT THIS SUNDAY TO THANK AND ENCOURAGE THEIR PASTOR'S WIFE!
Tennessee Gal, been there and done that. Not as a child, but my wife and I used to attend a church (SBC) that if given an opportunity would have you actively engaged in doing something every single night of the week!
I finally began to rebel against the pressure and asked who was going to come over and cut my grass for me? Stand watch if we went on a week of vacation? We soon left.
I finally began to rebel against the pressure and asked who was going to come over and cut my grass for me? Stand watch if we went on a week of vacation? We soon left.
Sounds like a cult.
A cult, EW&F? Could have been. It was a Baptist Church affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.
This church had so many committees that some folks were assigned to two or three of 'em at the same time. On the Finance Committee; the Budget Committee; the Sunday School Committee..., there was even a Committee for the purchase of Alter flowers for every Sunday. Grounds Committee. A Sunday School Committee. A Committee to monitor ill members. If the church van needed new tires there was a Committee assigned to oversee the purchase of new ones.
It was amazing..., and this wasn't a large church. Hence, business meetings ended up a war zone as everyone had a different agenda. Too many cooks in the kitchen.
This church had so many committees that some folks were assigned to two or three of 'em at the same time. On the Finance Committee; the Budget Committee; the Sunday School Committee..., there was even a Committee for the purchase of Alter flowers for every Sunday. Grounds Committee. A Sunday School Committee. A Committee to monitor ill members. If the church van needed new tires there was a Committee assigned to oversee the purchase of new ones.
It was amazing..., and this wasn't a large church. Hence, business meetings ended up a war zone as everyone had a different agenda. Too many cooks in the kitchen.
Either that or they were all nuts.