Episode 176: On Why We Gather Twice on Sundays

Pastors Talk - A podcast by 9Marks

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In this episode of Pastors Talk, Jonathan Leeman chats with Mark Dever about gathering twice on Sundays, and why it might be good for your church to be “inconvenient.”

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0:00.0	Hi, this is John Levin.
0:08.8	This is Mark Devere.
0:10.5	And welcome to this episode of Nine Marks Pastors Talk.
0:12.9	Nine Marks exist to equip church leaders of biblical, with a biblical vision and practical resources for building healthy churches to the glory of God.
0:20.7	Amen. Learn more at of God. Amen.
0:21.4	Learn more at 9marks.org.
0:26.8	Mark, we're going to talk about something today that's not in the Bible, but is one of the most
0:32.8	value-rich things in the life of Capitol Hill Baptist.
0:36.1	Can you guess what I'm going to talk about? Parking. You don't believe that. Singing. It's in the life of Capitol Hill Baptist. Can you guess what I'm going to talk about?
0:38.1	Parking. You don't believe that. Singing. It's in the Bible. You do sing at this event.
0:44.1	It's in the Bible. Members meetings. You don't sing at members meetings. The Sunday evening service.
0:49.9	Have we never talked about our prayer meeting? I don't think we have. Seriously. Alex was adamant that we talk about it.
0:55.6	I didn't go back and look at all of our old conversations to confirm, but I trust Alex.
1:00.0	All right.
1:00.4	So, this will be short.
1:01.7	Is gathering twice on a Sunday in the Bible?
1:04.7	No.
1:05.5	So why do you require members to come twice?
1:07.7	We use the verb expect, not require.
1:09.9	You expect them to come twice. We use the verb expect, not require. You expect them to come? Yeah. Is that really
1:12.4	different than require? Oh, yeah. How? If you don't come on Sunday morning, we'll excommunicate you.
1:16.9	If you don't come on Sunday evening will merely be disappointed and you won't be able to serve as an
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