A manual from Sweden writes into ask, Pastor John, how evangelistic for nonbelievers should

the Sunday gathering be?

Well, when I hear the term Sunday gathering, I take it to refer to the people of God

gathered for worship.

There's nothing wrong with having evangelistic services designed totally for unbelievers

on Sunday, nothing in the Bible says, don't evangelize on Sunday with meetings, but that

would not be the stated gathering of God's people for worship.

And I know too that not all Christians believe that the New Testament even calls us to have

corporate worship services once a week.

I've talked with people in this category who think the only thing Christians should

get together for is edification, not for worship.

I think that's a mistake, but I won't try to defend it here.

I think we are called to corporate worship as the people of God.

Then the question becomes, what place does evangelism have in that service?

That's the real question.

I would want to say that that service should be wonderfully and gloriously vertical in

its focus.

We should focus on God.

And there are a lot of people who think that because there are many, many, many good things

in the Christian life, all of those should be dumped into that one service.

So we need a place for ministry to children there.

We need a place for community communication there.

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