I was rather sick this morning, so I didn't make it out of bed until close to noon. Thus, as I had missed church in the morning, I decided that I should head down south to the other PCA in the city for their evening service. I wound up arriving just before the listed time to spot an empty parking lot, and a bulletin board that no longer listed an evening service (even though the website still does). This lead me to thinking about the the need both for continuity in the church as well as expansion.
I don't believe that a greater number of services per day indicates a healthier church, but at the same time I find that if a church does hold two services members should be committed to attending both. I was at one of this church's evening services a few weeks back, and the attendance as compared to that of the morning was quite disappointing in my opinion. I think that the CanRC can be accused with some legitimacy of being an ethnic enclave with little emphasis on evangelism to the outside world, but at the same time I wonder if the PCA as a denomination overemphasizes external evangelism at the cost of discipling the members of the church. Just how deep are the roots that have been put down.?