Come join us for our Evening Worship Service that is held each Sunday at 6pm in the sanctuary.
~A note from Rev. Norris~
Since we are resuming evening worship, this is a good opportunity to discuss why we have evening worship, especially when many churches do not. I want to highlight three reasons why we as a session want to include this practice in our life as a church body.
First, as the 4th commandment states, we believe that the Lord has given us six days in which to do all our work and pleasure, but the seventh belongs to the Lord. We don’t want to be pedantic, but we do believe that the Lord’s day is a day. In our consumer-minded culture it is very easy to slip into a mindset that views the Lord’s Day more as the Lord’s morning or Lord’s hour, and after worship is concluded we can do as we wish. Having the Lord’s Day begin and end with worship helps us to set apart the whole day for public and private worship.
Second, it is our belief that gathering with God’s people to worship and sit under the preaching of the word is for our spiritual good. The primary means of grace where God calls people to saving faith and builds his children up in faith and holiness is the preaching of the word. Having morning and evening worship gives God’s people double helpings of the very means Christ has promised to bless for our spiritual good. It is our firm conviction that evening worship will prove spiritually beneficial for all who come.
Third, evening worship gives God’s people the opportunity to hear preaching they might otherwise never hear if our practice was to only worship Lord’s Day morning. It is my intention to preaching from the New Testament in the morning and the Old Testament Sunday evenings. This will give God’s people a spiritual diet from all of scripture. In churches that only have morning worship, there are only so many books of the Bible that can ever be studies which means that most church members will never hear preaching from many of the books of the Old Testament. God has given to us 66 books, 39 of which are in the Old Testament and evening worship gives greater opportunity for God’s people to benefit from all of scripture.
For these reasons, we are excited to be resuming evening worship and want to invite and strongly encourage all of you to make attendance at evening worship a regular part of your Lord’s Day observance. I pray and hope to see you there January 4th!
James Norris~ Pastor, Covenant of Grace ARP, Winston-Salem, NC