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R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.
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This was good stuff.
We have our second service at noon because many of our congregation have to travel far. So we have Morning worship at 10am, then Fellowship time and then “evening service”.
It was put to me recently that to demand a second service or attendance at such is essentially to codify an opinion on how to keep the sabbath holy.
If one in good conscience can say they are keeping the sabbath holy without attendance at a second service are we creating a man-made law if we demand people attend (excepting occasions of mercy and necessity of course) ?