David Noyce
Peggy Fletcher StackStarting in September, the Sabbath experience will change for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints around the world.
Services each Sunday will feature all of the faith’s traditional classes for adults and youths, rather than every other week. That means an hourlong sacrament meeting, the faith’s main worship gathering, followed by 25 minutes of Sunday school for adults and teens, and then 25 minutes for all-male priesthood classes, along with women’s Relief Society and Young Women classes. Children’s Primary will remain 55 minutes long.
(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Starting in September, this will be the Sunday worship schedule for the global faith.
Essentially, church leaders are cramming classes and meetings that used to take three hours into the two-hour block the faith adopted in 2019.
Latter-day Saints see allowing men, women and teens to gather each week in their groups as a plus. But members worry about the 25-minute classes. Is that enough lesson time for meaningful discussion and deep gospel and scripture study?
(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) A teacher instructs an adult Sunday school class. Will 25 minutes be long enough?
On this week’s show, Cynthia Winward, co-host of the Latter-day Saint podcast “At Last She Said It,” and Michael David Huston, a contributor for the Latter-day Saint blog By Common Consent, discuss the Sunday shift.
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