Third, unless it is a highly liturgical format built around the Lord's Supper, the larger the crowd, the longer the service. Forty to fifty minutes may be appropriate when attendance is under a hundred, but if it exceeds five hundred, that worship experience probably should be in the sixty-five to ninety minute range. Lyle E. Schaller , parish consultant for the Yokefellow Institute, lives in Naperville, Illinois. He is a contributing editor for Leadership. Winter 1997, Vol.
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