Addendance Required

Ever wonder why worship all of the sudden seems like a town meeting once announcements start getting read? Well, it turns out, that's exactly how the dang things started. It turns out that the reason Church attendance was required by law wasn't to enforce morality (that was the duty of the household in that era, btw). Rather, people had to attend worship once a month because after worship is when what we call public service announcements were made! Two hundred years later we're still shifting into town meeting mode - only now we don't speak for the town any more. Weird.

Tags: Church, Attendance