agricola wrote:I didn't much like Wednesday nights, except it was at least short. I wasn't allowed to do anything much of an extracurricular at school anyway, so it wasn't like I was going to be anywhere else. Sunday nights - oh now THAT I did NOT like! No kids class, just 'church'. Repeat of the morning service without the sermon, basically - AND I never in my life saw Wide World of Disney (unless I was sick, and sometimes not even then ('if you are well enough to sit up and watch TV then you are well enough to go to church!').
Your Sunday evening service didn't have a sermon? We had to go through the whole thing again, sermon included. Of course it was a different sermon from the morning service, sometimes a followup to whatever the morning sermon was about.
By my time it was no longer the Wide World of Disney, it had changed to the Disney Sunday Movie. I hated having to miss it! When my dad brought home a VCR (a sixty pound monstrosity that probably cost $500) the first thing I asked him to tape was the Disney Sunday Movie.
Speaking of good memories, by the time I got old enough to appreciate well-thought-out sermons I was attending a church where the preacher was very good. Highly educated, not "one true church" -ish, strongly focused on social justice, and not caught up in the culture wars. I still don't know how that church is still part of the COC. In fact I heard of visitors storming out mid-sermon, though I never saw it happen myself. Listening to his erudite sermons is one of my best COC memories.
Lev