Featured Super Bowl Sunday, what does your church do?

Services the same as always.

 

No evening services.

I oppose, but I’m only one vote.

 

nuthin

 

Our 'team' lost over and over at the Colosseum and other arenas in the early centuries. What would those martyrs think of today's churches voluntarily yielding any of the Lord's Day to the trashy, violent spectacle of the Super Bowl?

 

Oh, they go back further than that! To the beginning:

John 20:19
Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled...

Acts of the Apostles 20:7
And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.

 

Services as normal, and before Covid, had big cell group SB parties!

 

The 1689 London Baptist Assembly recommending that church discipline be extended even to nonattendance at the midweek service:

Narrative of The Proceedings of the 1689 London Baptist Assembly

"The Questions Proposed from the Several Churches, Debated, and Resolved
....
Question. Whether when the Church have agreed upon the keeping of one day, weekly or monthly, besides the first day of the week, to worship God and perform the necessary services of the Church, they may not charge such persons with evil that neglect such meetings, and lay them under reproof, unless such members can shew good cause for such their absence?
Answer. Concluded in the affirmative (Heb. x. 25)."

 

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

"Look at your half-Sunday professors—content with only one service and weary of that!"

"In many Chapels two services...have proved too great an effort for the constitution of the ministers and too much of a tax upon the time of their hearers who are occupied with the far superior avocations of card games or lawn tennis."

 

Charles Spurgeon on the Prayer Meeting (1875):

"why is it that so many prayer-meetings are so very thin? I know some places in London where they talk about giving up the prayer-meeting....Poor dear things, they cannot manage to get out to worship more than once in the week, they are so much occupied."

 

Charles Spurgeon, "The Church's Work" (1877 address to the London Baptist Association):

"You know, the bricklayers, and carpenters, and working people that come to the Tabernacle....would like a service every night in the week. They most of them have to earn their livings, but you, ladies and gentlemen, that live a little way out of town, are too tired with your day's work, which, I hear, consists of going at ten in the morning and coming home at five. It is so very wearisome that you cannot be expected to have a lecture and a prayer meeting. I am sorry for your sickness, and I trust that you may speedily recover, for there can be no real blessing, depend upon it, where the prayer-meeting is put into a secondary position."

 

Charles Spurgeon, The Soul-Winner :

"One lazy man said...why...not give up one of the Sunday services? The same reasoning might apply to that as to the week-night meeting. I saw, in an American paper to-day, the following paragraph: ”The well-known fact is again going the rounds that, in Mr. Spurgeon’s church in London, the regular hearers absent themselves one Sunday evening every three months, and the house is given up to strangers....Our American Christianity is of so noble a type that hosts of our people give up their pews to strangers every Sunday night in the year.” I hope it will not be so with your people, brethren, either with respect to the Sabbath services or the prayer-meetings."