How long should a service of worship be?
Time's up. Answer, please.
If you said an hour, you are probably a Methodist, or you could be.
If you said just under an hour, you are probably a Methodist who's put the dinner on.
If you said an hour and a quarter you are probably an Anglican who likes to take Communion.
If you said two hours, you are probably an evangelical.
If you said at least three hours you probably attend a black church.
If you said it depends on the sermon, shame on you.
If you said twenty minutes ......
either you are in a tearing hurry, slow down
or you are very enlightened
or you recognise that a service can be complete in that time ie you have been to Barrow Hospital to a service in which all elements are included and Communion received in that time scale.
So .... why are services so traditional? Do we spin things out from a sense of duty? Is it not worth going out unless you get your money's worth? Or what?
3 comments:
My gold fish just recieved communion, cleansing and liturgy. It took 15 minutes.
Do you consider that long, short or about right?
well goldfish usually only cope with 3 minutes. I also cope best with three minutes.
You need to read maggi dawns blog about multi tasking - someone has commented there about time.
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