The Methodicality of the Church

[Classik]

It's beginning to seem a little threadbare when we keep repeating the same procedure for our church activities: You can predict correctly what happens next. It is beginning to kind of bore me.

Do you at times get a little worried about our usual methodicality churchicality?

 

[Obadiah]

Not fair. Your making me read big words before my first gallon of coffee has had it's effect.

Can you give an example of what you mean?

 

[Willie T]

Does that "Big Word" even exist?

 

[Kathi]

adjective
1.
performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly:
a methodical person.
2.
painstaking, especially slow and careful; deliberate.

How about this??

 

[Willie T]

I might buy it if you had named the source. Notice, I said, "might"....... Wikipedia ain't real credible.

 

[Free]

Does that "Big Word" even exist?

No, I don't think so. I think the word wanted is methodology (or perhaps methodicalness).

 

[Classik]

From the religious name: Methodist (and not about them).

So can we help on the op now that it has been clarified?

 

[Obadiah]

From the religious name: Methodist (and not about them).

So can we help on the op now that it has been clarified?

But you still didn't give an example of what you are talking about. It's hard to discuss it, even know if we have seen what you are talking about in our own churches, or talk about solutions without a bit more info...

 

[Gary]

I believe he's referring to the routine of his church and how it never changes.

Same thing different day.
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[Classik]

But you still didn't give an example of what you are talking about. It's hard to discuss it, even know if we have seen what you are talking about in our own churches, or talk about solutions without a bit more info...

Sorry for not being clear again even after my world-class clarification

In my church, this is the worship procedure: Sunday School lesson, worship (band and choirs), special presentations by members, testimonies, welcoming new members, sermon, hymal, closing, departure.

So you always know what will happen next.
At times this is boring.

Could there be a more attractive packaging?

 

[Classik]

I believe he's referring to the routine of his church and how it never changes.

Same thing different day.
.

You are a hero. You deserve a presidential handshake for this world-class intervention.

 

[Willie T]

Yeah, I suppose a lot of churches COULD benefit from a bit more spontaneity and impromptus creativity in their Worship Service timeline. (How 'bout THAT Big Word?)

 

[Gary]

You are a hero. You deserve a presidential handshake for this world-class intervention.

A "Like" will suffice.
.

 

[Willie T]

Change like that needs to be gradual, though....... unfortunately.

 

[Classik]

Change like that needs to be gradual, though....... unfortunately.

Yea. It doesn't seem to work for us. The youth tried it. Maybe they were so quick

 

[Free]

Sorry for not being clear again even after my world-class clarification

In my church, this is the worship procedure: Sunday School lesson, worship (band and choirs), special presentations by members, testimonies, welcoming new members, sermon, hymal, closing, departure.

So you always know what will happen next.
At times this is boring.

Could there be a more attractive packaging?

Why should there be a "more attractive packaging"? Where did Jesus ever try to make his message attractive? I think this highlights a significant and detrimental problem in the Evangelical church--that the faith has become about what can I get out of it, what can God do for me? It has very much become self focused whereas the whole point of the gospel is about what God has done for us in Christ.

So it should not at all matter if one knows what will happen next, since it is never to be about us but about our relationship with God.

 

[Willie T]

Yea. It doesn't seem to work for us. The youth tried it. Maybe they were so quick

My grandfather owned a chain of grocery stores. He tried too radical a change in some of them, and he lost many, many customers.... despite the fact that the changes were all improvements.

 

[Classik]

Yea. It doesn't seem to work for us. The youth tried it. Maybe they were so quick

However the worship time has been tripped. A good one here

 

[Classik]

Why should there be a "more attractive packaging"? Where did Jesus ever try to make his message attractive? I think this highlights a significant and detrimental problem in the Evangelical church--that the faith has become about what can I get out of it, what can God do for me? It has very much become self focused whereas the whole point of the gospel is about what God has done for us in Christ.

So it should not at all matter if one knows what will happen next, since it is never to be about us but about our relationship with God.

What if things are made a bit livelier?
Ate there certain practices that are old-fashioned today?

 

[Willie T]

Why should there be a "more attractive packaging"? Where did Jesus ever try to make his message attractive? I think this highlights a significant and detrimental problem in the Evangelical church--that the faith has become about what can I get out of it, what can God do for me? It has very much become self focused whereas the whole point of the gospel is about what God has done for us in Christ.

So it should not at all matter if one knows what will happen next, since it is never to be about us but about our relationship with God.

Wasn't the "packaging" of a loving Christ better than the domineering strictness of the Sanhedrin? Undoubtedly, it was. And people immediately began to respond to THAT message.