[hiho hiho]

"Flexibility and tolerance are not necessarily watering down the truth,"

I'd say the Episcopal church is a little too flexible and a lot too tolerant!

[caseinpoint]

Suppose you were invited to a reception with a governor (you admited) or President Bush. You would dress in "Sunday best", wouldn't you? So why is the Lord entitled to less respect than our worldly leaders?

I belong to a formal church where men look like men and women look like women. We are also strongly discouraged from doing anything that requires others to miss the Sabbath because of work, therefore "Grandma's favorite buffet" is not part of the Sunday plan. Sunday isn't a day of rest in the leisure sense because we are busy checking on congregants, visiting the sick and shut-ins, studying scriptures, serving others. I can't imagine church and Sunday any other way.

[Gingersnap]

Why bother to show up at all? Can't the priest just email everybody on his "worship" ping list?

And the ECUSA can't understand why they are losing members to more traditional churches.

[sassbox]

Sunday evening services aren't bad per se. Some Catholic parishes have Sunday evening Masses which attract many people, especially teens, that may not have made it to Mass otherwise. Saturday evening they're already out on the town and Sunday morning they want to sleep in. Obviously these are not really good reasons to prefer Sunday p.m. Mass. However if you can initially get kids into church and give them solid preaching and give God reverent worship, they often later go on to develop a more mature faith. They'll start to see why worshiping God takes priority over sleeping in or going out. Of course this all assumes that the Sunday evening Mass or service is geared towards worshiping God - not trying to be hip or "organic" - whatever the heck that's supposed to mean.

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