Church and Scheduling

How should a person schedule his or her life? Around the church--in particular, her [the church's] Sunday worship services.

Lives built around Sabbath church worship, are lives worth living.

On the flip side: how should the church schedule her services? Should they be intentional, with regard to social, demographic, or other considerations? No.

Instead, the church elders should schedule Sunday services around the Word of God, and the concept of the Sabbath Day, generally.

This would, in most if not all situations, result in AM and PM (evening) services.

Parishioners should then accord their lives, and their families, around this schedule.

"Those who honor Me, I will honor," (1 Sam. 2:30).

Easter "services"?

The jury is out: will the Mega-"churches" have Easter "services," or not? Many of them chose not to have Christmas services on Sunday, December 25, 2005. Some of the rationale was that Christmas Day was a great opportunity for families to gather, without having to bother with the trouble of going to church.

Will the same reasoning prevail with regard to Easter?

If the Mega-"churches" do have their "services" on Easter Sunday, this would pose another profound question: Why on Sunday? Why not on a Wednesday night, or some other day of the week? If the answer is, "Well, that's because Jesus rose from the dead on a Sunday morning" --then this raises some more interesting queries.

If Jesus rose on the first day of the week--should not this day (Sunday) be commemorated for all time, in the New Covenant church? The answer, of course, is "yes."

If churches that took Dec. 25 off last year choose to meet on April 16 this year, (2006)--maybe this will lead them to think more clearly about the Lord, His church, and His Sabbath Day. Let's pray that it will.