I have often argued for simplifying the busy schedule churches often have.

I just recently came across this quote from Craig Barnes book, The Pastor as Minor Poet:

“So rather than developing a ‘seven day a week’ church that fills up the members’ lives with church activity, the poetic pastor will wonder why these folks need the church to be a subculture that keeps them so busy with religious activity that they never have a chance to follow Christ out into the surrounding world.” (69)