Sundays

I work for a Church.....On Sundays I always go to what we commonly call "Church". I'm on the leadership team of an evening service. Yet I have concerns about Sunday Church. I think we focus on it way too much. Maybe, because I'm a youth pastor and many of the youth I serve don't come on Sunday mornings, a few more come at night but a lot don't come at all, I have a different view to Sunday services. But I think we often expect everything to happen on a Sunday service. We expect evangelism, worship that is not to loud and has some old and some new songs, teaching, community, prayer, scripture reading, discipleship, ministry, freedom, structure, time for reflection, dramas, notices, Church community news, missionary news, transparentary, revival and most important, the service must not go over 70 mins. Next week our Church starts an intense call to prayer - the youth are setting up a 24/7 prayer room for the Church to use for the week. One of the things we are praying for is that more "spiritual seekers" will attend Sunday services. Great thing to pray for but I ask "why again the focus on Sunday". I mean to be honest I would prefer that they went to Alpha. Now I need to say this is not a dig at the Church I attend where I think the services are good. The preaching is alright and so is the worship - I'm not knocking my Church - I enjoy it. The question I'm posing is that maybe we need to look beyond Sunday services if the Church is really going to be effective in our culture? It's not that we need to change our services from modern songs singing services to post-modern emerging services. It's that we need to realise that effective Christianity is a day to day choice that effects all of life 24/7 not just 70 mins on Sunday. On the word Church I gather the Bible never mentions that the Church is something we "go to" or "attend". According to the Bible the Church is something you "become" as you accept Christ and beocme part of His body. Maybe I'm always at Church - because I am the Church or at least a part of it - joined to Christ and all other Christians. It's funny how normally we only ever hear that verse "where two or three are gathered I am there also" when less people have turned up at a service than we expected. What about when I meet with a youth over a coffee - there's two of us - God's there - maybe that's Church???? Maybe God isn't just interested in the clean family looking guy that attends Church - maybe that is not even who He sees as being the best witness to this world? Maybe it is the stressed out Monday to Saturday guy who is trying to figure out how to fit work, family, chores, and faith into 24 hours???? Maybe we need to face the fact that doing different things no matter how emergent, technological, or trendy they are on Sundays are not going to cause 1000's to come??? Maybe the best witness is not going to happen on Sunday it's going to happen when imperfect but grace filled pilgrims try to reflect the God that called them in the life they live 24/7?? Maybe we need to realise we don't attend Church because we're always a part of it - 24/7? Maybe I have to many questions so I should just shut up? Maybe???