Sermonettes Make Disciplettes

Listening to our positive and encouraging radio station yesterday, I heard a news clip about an article from the Christian Post called Would You Go to Church if Services Were Shorter? The premise of the article is this—some church leaders believe that church services are too time consuming. People nowadays have short attention spans and church leaders need to cater to this modern phenomenon.

What? Adonai, the King of the Universe, sets up a weekly, all day appointment with His people on Saturday (Lev 23:3). His people shorten the appointment to a 2-3 hour meeting in the mid-morning on Sunday. Now, they want to reduce this time with Him to no more than 50 minutes because they cannot focus their attention to hearing His Word. This is utter foolishness!

Short attention spans are the result of the world we live in, especially here in the US. This idea to shorten church services is nothing more than an excuse to get out of God's meeting and back into the world in order to partake in more of it's indulgences.

If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath,
from doing your pleasure on my holy day,
and call the Sabbath a delight
and the holy day of the LORD honorable;
if you honor it, not going your own ways,
or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;
then you shall take delight in the LORD,
and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;
I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,
for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
— Isaiah 58:13,14

I think this week I'm going to teach for 2 hours!

You can read the entire article here:
Would You Go to Church if Services Were Shorter?, By R. Leigh Coleman



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