Featured Two Sunday services required?

Ah! Those were the days!

 

By all means lets make football more important than God.

 

Is this a case of an IFB church observing the completely man-made shuffle-service-for-the-Super-Bowl myth? I'd say it has no scriptural support!

 

You know you need to cancel church to watch the Communist protesters, I meant NFL players.

 

One great big all day would be splendid

 

When I lived in Maryland there was a period of time when our church would meet for a fellowship meal after the morning worship service. After the meal, there was a time of teaching in a Q & A format. This carried us until the evening worship service. It was a practice that viewed the Lord's day as more than just a physical rest but an actual sabbath rest.

1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith 22.8 The sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering their common affairs aforehand, do not only observe an holy rest all day, from their own works, words and thoughts, about their worldly employment and recreations, but are also taken up the whole time in the public and private exercises of his worship, and in the duties of necessity and mercy.
( Isaiah 58:13; Nehemiah 13:15-22; Matthew 12:1-13 )

 

The article begins very poorly written as it was filled with statements that show the author's bias. When you get to the second paragraph it is like someone else is now writing. I believe the author makes a good case for why we should but he does not make a case that we must.

 

Nostalgia wasn't Charles Spurgeon's reaction to the last book he reviewed before his death. From his Autobiography:

"The Sabbath in Puritan New England, by Alice Morse Earle, probably contains the last inscription written by the Pastor, and a very expressive one it is :— "An amusing but saddening book. The seamy side of New England religion exposed. . .— C. H. Spurgeon, Dec, 1891.",

 

Your irony sensor seems to be malfunctioning. I suggest you get it serviced.

 

It goes back further than that!

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.

 

So they only had the evening services?

Maybe the better answer is that Jews started their day in the evening. Shabat starts at sundown Friday.

I don't think these verses really have anything to do with a Sunday night service.

With that said, I loved doing Sunday night. It was a great time to teach more deeply and allow for questions and, hopefully, answers.

 

I believe the first day of the week is set apart unto worship (Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:1-2; Rev. 1:7) and it seems the entire day was set apart as a day of worship and fellowship (Acts 2:43-47; 20:7-10; 1 Cor. 14).

Everything else as far as specific time for one aspect of worship is provided in the principle "Let all things be done decently and in order."