Duration of Church Services
It has become common practise nowadays for churches to finish at anywhere from 4pm – 5pm. As someone who has attempted to bring people from the world to the church -time has been a big deterrent to this. Many friends have said you cele churches take too long. Is it right to start service at 10am and still be in service till 4/5pm even sometimes 6?
For many, Sunday is also their only day of rest and to be in church for 6, 7 hours – is this right?
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But there’s a difference between your physical rest for your body, and the rest for your soul. The rest for your soul is what you come to church for and that radiates to the rest of your body.
What people don’t see is that they want to go home quickly with their family, but the reality is that when you get home you’re going to start thinking of things you’re not supposed to start thinking of (e.g. worrying about bills and the week ahead).
Being in the presence of The Lord, and with the help of The Holy Spirit we have help in these areas so we can enter into His rest; so even if everything around you is falling apart you can be at rest by being in God’s presence. But I subscribe to church finishing early but there’s nothing bad if they finish late.
Even the family you’re going home to meet is still the family of God, and you belong to the household of God. If you know your church finishes late, what you should do is pack stuff and do your family activities at church. That way you’re not missing much.
Author: Celestial Weekly
God told us to cast our worries upon Him because she He cares!!!! I’m not bothered if I finish church activities late in the evening!!! The most important thing is having abundant joy and blessings to take home and the reassurance that God is indeed for me!
Im not really satisfied with this response. You dont need to physically spend hours in the church to receive rest in the spirit. The peace of the Lord is not time bound
It may even be argued that the lack of good family time is a contributory factor for broken homes in the celestial churches. What exactly are we doing in church for 6/7 hours? Half of the time is spent not in the spirit.
I believe we need to hold our hands up and admit that we need to be more disciplined in our time management.
Very sorry, but lets not make this overly spiritual.
God is in your home too. You should find abundant joy and blessings in him wherever you are. Especially in your home.
I joined the Celestial Church of Christ in Festac Town Kagos. Our times of services tend to be from 10 am to 2 pm. This would include an hour for the sermon and 2 or 3 melodious Thanks offerings. When we leave the service at 2 pm we are so excited about the time we have spent in the presence of the Lord we have no sense of the time spent.
In recent times however, I have observed that sermons have been lifeless, dry and with no inspiration. People become bored and cannot wait to get away. Also there is now a tendency to do spiritual jobs and revivals during Sunday services. Not everybody is interested.
In the past if you had a spiritual assignment it was fine after the main service was concluded on Sunday. No service should go beyond 2pm on a Sunday.