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LDS Church spokesperson Dale Jones issued the following statement Monday, Nov. 23:
“After recognizing it was not within Church guidelines, local Church leadership in the Boston Massachusetts Stake decided to drop plans to shorten the standard Sunday worship meeting schedule. The two-month experiment set to begin in the stake in January was planned locally with good intentions to better observe the Sabbath Day.”
Apparently there are limits to what can be done in the name of making the “Sabbath a delight.” This would be a Sabbath day push that I could really get behind.
:lolno: Roadrunner wrote:One issue with shortening meetings or eliminating announcements
I’m not sure how there could be a problem with eliminating announcements, since only the people on the first couple rows can hear them anyway.
Maybe move them to after the opening hymn when at least a quarter of the screaming kids have been mostly silenced. There’s plenty of other filler in the three hour block that can be cut without leaving a few of us to gather in the parking lot next Sunday at 9AM wondering why the doors are locked and we’re the only ones there, as we look at the stake calendar and see nothing special, then leave the bishop a half dozen voice mails asking what the heck is going on. (Yes, happened twice lately.)
As for eliminating firesides and such, I’d like to point out that a lot of us divorced non-custodial fathers don’t have family to spend Sundays with. It’s bad enough that the closest singles Home Evening is two hours away, so I get a weekly reminder of how alone I am every Monday night; let’s not stretch it back to include Sunday evening too.
I would prefer to have the third hour be a work meeting for leaders to get together with committees and presidencies since everyone is already there that day. As an optional time. It’s the Lord’s work — why not allow us to do it on Sunday in the third hour?
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