Hm, so basically, if the link doesn't work, it talked about Sunday preaching specifically, Mr. Furtick preaches to the the lost attending, with the believers in mind. Mr. Chandler preaches to the believers, while keeping the lost visiting in mind. Personal thoughts on Mr. Furtick and Mr. Chandler are, I don't know a lot about either. and this video is just a piece of the whole video/discussion apparently.
Either way, it's thought provoking and something worth examining.
There a few items to address first. When on a sports team, does one always play for visitors? For the crowd? NO they practice and learn. They have a coach and staff for teaching those on the team. Are there sometimes people visiting or checking out the team? Yes. Still, the practice is not for them. Even scouting people they might bring them to a team practice to see how it's run, not to learn what they are learning, but to see what they are learning and how. Now lets check how this even makes sense.
Now as for Sunday, that's the day many things happened in the New Testament. Jesus was resurrected on the first day aka Sunday. Pentecost was on a Sunday, which was when the Holy Spirit came on the apostles (Acts 2)
there are other verses saying believers met on the first day of the week. (Acts 20:7, 1 Corinthians 16:1-2). In these verses, this is believers meeting together.
Yet I ask myself, well there could have been others not believers there right? Well, absolutely, meeting in homes probably sometime a neighbor came by or family, or even like the Samaritan woman at the well (John 4:4-42), people invite others to hear the Good News. Yet lets go back to the sports team analogy.
We have to practice, meditate, learn, grow as a team (in terms of analogy). This is done just ourselves, for the Great commission in Matthew 28: 18-20 is for us to GO OUT (each of us), not sit and bring them to a sermon one day a week. We must have our own time to grow, become one body, encourage one another, be a team/ united body. This would then lead us to remembering our focus needs to be on the believers here, not unbelievers. Preaching would then lead to edifying the believers, not unbelievers (though if any there, we can pray they and hope they are called). Believers NEED this time. We do not spend enough time together due to work, life, sickness. We need this break to be and to give encouragement, to learn, to grow, to help and be helped. Jesus took time away for Himself, jus look at the gospels.
So, in short, Sunday is for the believers. Like a team, we have to practice, learn, be strengthened, before we are back out in the world... where we are tested and must be used to "...make disciples of all nations." (Matthew 28:19)
Sunday is an amazing day especially when we come together as believers. It is our rest, our recharge, the time for believers (the preaching/coming together) to learn from one another in fellowship. Unless you say you are saying you are better than Jesus who also had times to rest, recharge, pray, and step back and spend time with His disciples, which I hope and pray you don't.
There is more that can be said, but it's late and lowly I'm losing concentration.... time for a rest and recharge.
