Why Have Evening Worship On Sunday Evenings?
A very brief biblical, historic, and experiential case (mainly pointing out other resources)
On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.
Acts 20:7
Maybe when you read the above verse you might have thought that some people could interpret this as saying we need to worship until midnight on Sundays. That would be stretching the point made here. The main point of this verse is that the early church practiced not only morning worship but evening worship on the Sabbath day.
We see the rhythms of morning and evening throughout Scripture:
Numbers 28:4 “The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight.”
Psalm 1:2 “but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.”
Psalm 92:1-2 “It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to your name, O Most High; to declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night.”
Revelation 4:8 “And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, ‘Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!’”
There is great evidence throughout the history of the Church that evening worship has been practiced. There are churches today that see the rich benefit in having another corporate worship service in the evening. There is a great case for us to restore the evening service today. To gather again as a church body to worship our Lord and partake in the means of grace again on the Sabbath is truly one of the greatest events of each week.
To help encourage you to think more about this, take a look at the two videos below from Alistair Begg and Robert Godfrey.