A comment from a book I read this year that I came across in preparing my sermon...
"When you image the amount of resources, energy and time invested in a service held only one day a week, it is remarkable. With all the importance placed on this event, you would expect there to be a lot of scriptural directives to make sure people get it right. But if you search all of the New Testament looking for the command or injunctions having to do with this important weekly event, you will find them sadly missing. Instead you will find verses, chapters, and entire books that speak to how we are to live together as a spiritual family." - Neil Cole, “Organic Church”
What do you think of this comment?
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Get rid of Sunday morning service??
2 comments:
Could it be that Sunday morning service as we know it has become the greatest hindrance to biblical community? People don't need each other as much when they know they can wait each week until Sunday.
I think Cole is right. Unfortunately, people are so tied to Sunday morning that I fear there would be a rebellion in the form of mass walkout were we to eliminate Sunday morning service.
On the flip side, if we eliminated Sunday morning, what are the odds a whole bunch of "saints" would dro out of the kingdom altogether?
Thanks Ron for posting on my blog. I like Neil's quote because it's hyperbole really tweeks the thinking. I agree with you that our Sunday morning is important to allow us to corporately worship our great Lord and King. And yet too many of our people are so tied to church simply being an event (Sunday morning), a place (the church building) or a person (the pastor and his sermon), that God's people too often overlook what authentic, loving community looks like the other 6 days of the week.
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