I'm Baptist by choice, but I really get tired of thirty minute butts!
Seems like just when I'm getting into the Spirit of the service, it's over!
Heck, if we go to all the trouble to get dressed for church and drive through the traffic to get there, why are we watching the clock for the time to go home?
I remember the old camp meetin' style services of my youth that went on all day with people hugging and crying and singing praises to the Lord!
THAT'S my kind of worship!!
They are trying to incorporate the Praise & Worship component through it, and making progress.
All in all, they are outstanding in bringing it to the YOUTH of the church (tomorrow's hope), and it is a happening place for them!
My grandsons (16 and 3) and grandaughter (11), cannot wait to get there. The two oldest are in the Youth Choir and had a 3-day tour of several states in June.
Tiny as the town is, it is among the Top Ten in Baptist churches in America for proportionate growth and baptisms!
You mention camp meetings, and those are found with several churches, but the two churches I enjoyed in NC were an hour of Praise and Worship, followed by a sermon of varying length, and a call to pray as you feel moved, and to share testimonies.
The Holy Spirit often moved many congregants, and there was NO sense of time, worshipping the Lord!
What one finds there is what God meant when He commanded us to come before Him with joy and dancing and singing and musical instruments!
In a way that is hard to explain, the Holy Spirit does literally inhabit one's praises and prayers.
It carries over to every aspect of your life; every day.