Sunday Mornings
This post has been a long time coming. Been out there “Doing Hard Things” instead of in here blogging. Sorry about that I hope to have time to get back on track soon.
This past Sunday, I preached my first Sunday morning lesson. What an experience. Many times I have “preached” on Sunday evenings, I have taught 100’s of classes lecture style, but never a Sunday morning lesson.
For the lesson Sunday morning I spent more time preparing than ever before. I was more ready to speak than I ever have been and yet I was also more nervous. It was Sunday morning, people are expecting a “real” lesson.
I grew up going to church 3 times a week. Sunday night, I was allowed to wear jeans and a t-shirt (tucked in of course). Wednesday night I could wear the same (never shorts though, that was prohibited), but on Sunday mornings, it was slacks and a nice button up shirt, sometimes a clip on tie, etc. Why was Sunday morning so different?
Is it really necesary to put so much emphasis on one hour of our week? Does God really care what you look like when you come to worship him. I listened to the song “Jesus Freak” by DC Talk last night and was hit with the realization that John the Baptist never wore a tie. I guess he was doing worship wrong.
I guess my question still remains, why is Sunday morning so important? If God calls us to live every second of every day to glorify him, then shouldn’t everything we do be “worship”? Why do we have to dress up. Why is it so scary? Should participating in worship to our God be so scary and if so shouldn’t we wake up every morning and have the same “fear”?
What do you think? Do we as Christians put too much emphasis on the importance of “Sunday Morning Corporate Worship”, or is it as it should be. Please comment.
