Podcast Episode #133

Today on the podcast we discuss a recent post on trends in worship service times.

Some highlights from today's episode include:

* Psychologically, when a church service goes past noon, it feels "too long" for many.

* Early services are growing in popularity with young families and Boomers.

* There is not rapid growth in non-Sunday worship services. The growth is steady, but slow.

* Saturday night worship services in the South often struggle because of the popularity of college football.

The seven trends in worship service times are:

* Churches with multiple Sunday morning services will soon be in the majority

* The 11:00 am worship service is no longer the designated time for a majority of churches

* Earlier Sunday morning services are gaining in popularity

* The growth in the number of non-Sunday primary services is steady but slow

* The number of churches with concurrent worship service times is small, but will continue to increase

* The most popular worship times start between 9:30 am to 10:30 am

* Worship wars over service times will continue to wane

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