Come and go

An English Church has introduced rolling 30 mins time slots from 9 to 12.30 on Sunday and people "come and go".
Those of us who remember continuous cinema recall how starnge it was to come 30 mins before the end of the film and stay until you got to the same point.It's the same sort of structure
Difficult to create any sense of denouement, but does allow maximum flexibility.
We have rather experimented in the same way. And I have mixed feelings. There is a weakness about it all; in accomodating almost everyone maybe we are accomodating no one!
I have bigger concerns about the whole sense of the fact that we now live in the sort of world that is on duty all the time. Growing up in the years when Sunday afternoon was almost dead in the commercial part of the town where we lived, I now live in a city in which the wheelers and dealers (usually the big ones) desperately want to be open 24 hours a day every day.
But is there some widsom in saying ....no that is not what we do and setting boundaries. The experimental service answer says we must adapt...but how far it adapts and how far it drives the adaptation is another issue!
The principal of Sabbath rest says that everyone needs some free time, and we shoudl be able to share that time some what.

It is not straight forward, but sad that in being more flexible we so often end up being more rigid.