Not sure how to link this but here is the facebook post of a 2 minute video with W. Robert Godfrey on the demise of the evening service.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=646718529114476
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=646718529114476
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Our church offered an evening service, but it proved not to be a viable model.
Robert Godfrey in this month's TableTalk, says of the Synod of Dort that "... when asked what to do with the traditional evening service if it was poorly attended, the synod advised that the evening service should be held even if only the minster’s family were in attendance. In time, the Dutch Reformed churches became careful in observing the Christian Sabbath, and the two services helped greatly in producing a devout and well-educated laity."
Our church offered an evening service, but it proved not to be a viable model.
Proud to say most of the congregations in my area (MS Valley) adhere to the biblical pattern of gathering morning and evening.
From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the Lord is to be praised!Will you demonstrate this from Scripture, please?
Will you demonstrate this from Scripture, please?
Someone pointed out to me recently on Facebook and it may have been done so here as well (we have discussed this several times, and of recent time when I announced our church was starting one up again), that the Synod of Dort told ministers there were to have an evening service and to keep having one even if only the minister and his family showed up. Folks won't come if it is not offered. It's not hard to understand if a church abandons the morality of a full day for the Lord's worship, that any practical difficulties will easily seem enough to kill off the evening service.
The title of Psalm 92 is "A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day." And the first sentence speaks of morning and evening worship: "It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night."Will you demonstrate this from Scripture, please?
From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the Lord is to be praised!
Psalms 113:3 ESV