The handwriting was already on the wall before the pandemic killed it. Attendance at the evening service of a typical Bible-preaching church in America has been plummeting for years. Many abandoned it long before COVID restrictions forced each church to evaluate what was truly essential to its ministry. While some resolutely returned to the old schedule, many dropped their evening service in the subsequent years.
“On the first Sunday of 2019, our church started a Sunday evening service. Actually, it’s more accurate to say that we ‘resurrected’ it. Like many churches, our Sunday night service died a slow death years earlier. ” - 9Marks
Proclaim and Defend: “Holding three services, with the same size group, doing nearly the same thing in each service, is not likely meeting the discipleship needs of new believers and therefore not effectively carrying out the Great Commission.”
