Church Service

Connections List
 * Church Stuff
 * Sabbath
 * Giving
 * Communion
 * Worship
 * Preaching
 * Egalitarian issues
 * Church organization
 * Read scripture public

Scope
 * Church services, those limited time 1/sunday events

Topics
 * 1/Week
 * Elements and meaning
 * Proper sequence

1/Week
 * Based from Sabbath, perhaps.
 * 1 Cor 16, set aside an amount every week for tithe
 * Acts 20:7 came together to break bread on 1st day of week

Elements Lists
 * Worship - talking to God, choral ceremony, :)
 * Sermon - God talking to us via pastor
 * Corporate/led prayer - talking to God with more meat, discrete ideas
 * Community - God in us talking to us a lot, build e.a. up, logistics, I would expect uses of prophecy/words for each other.
 * Communion
 * 1) actual ceremony of communion which in OT was passover 1/yr. This is reminder of sin and saved state, thanks.
 * 2) 1 Cor 11:17-34 Lords supper every time they meet? Break bread in houses together acts 2:42. This facilitates community, provision.
 * Tithing - more transactions and sacrifice and recognition towards God
 * Other fx not usually every week
 * Infant dedication / baptism
 * Adult baptism
 * Comission missionaries
 * Special funds
 * Logistics, scheduling, plans
 * Bring your friends
 * Revelation (prophecy?)
 * Tounges and interpretation
 * I would suggest reading the church mission statement during service
 * 1 Cor 14:26, hymn, instruction, revelation, tongue, interpretation

Sequence
 * Theoretically I would prefer community or sermon before worship because God has always been the first mover in our relationship. So our worship is a Irresistible Grace response to his movement. However a sermon is dampened by humanity.
 * Most churches begin with worship. One reason may be that in America we think too much and don't use our hearts, so worship puts us in a receptive mood. It also puts us receptive by making sensory saturated and communal catalytic/critical mass symbiotic myopic effects. A more cold way of justifying such a sequence is to say worship is a formal invitation for God to come. However only some songs are phrased this way. Also, I sometimes learn more in worship than the sermon.