What's Supposed to Happen on Sundays?

There is a lot of expectation for what is supposed to happen on Sundays.

What results are we to look for?

How do you measure hearts that endure in loyalty to God because of what happens on Sundays?

How do you calculate fruitfulness?

How do you grasp the renewal of someone's mind?

Works. Action. Deeds.

The expectation is that, whatever actually happens, the end results in more people doing works of love more often. Works of love done in someway because of their response to God's work of love in them.

How do you know if someone is doing works of love?

At some point we need to mark down what are the works of love Jesus calls us to continue doing, and then mark up how each of us is going to do them week to week.

So then we need to backtrack: what is it that we do on Sundays that contributes to doing works of love week in and week out?

What is it about the songs we sing, and the singing of those songs? What is it about the Scripture that is preached, and the preaching of the Scripture? What is it of the prayers and the praying, of the the koinonia, of the serving, of the listening? What are ways of doing those things that contribute to more people being enabled to live out the Great Commandment and Commission?

I suppose at one level, it has to do with the hearts and heads of the leaders: they set the example. At another level, there needs to be a consistency in the overall message: setting a standard for understanding why we do what we do. There could be many more, but the third thing I think of is connectability: how to help each person connect with the example they see, the message they hear with their own living from week to week.

For Anchor, I think we need to up the intensity of our example-setting of our leaders, be more consistent in sharing our standard message, and then keep being creative in our connectability.

It is not rocket-science, just glad endurance.