Shamitako

nice.

Is it your family that's saying that or church officials? Are any of your family members involved in worship teams (choirs, bands), or serving teams (tithe/offering/connection card collection, communion)?

Technically - most churches I've gone to have an opening music number that lets the congregation know it is time for the service that lasts 2 or 3 minutes after the beginning of church. 5 minutes early - assuming you are just there to worship and aren't connected to any ministry teams - is 7 minutes early.

I just asked my dad, they do the opening thing three minutes before, so I suppose we were only two minutes early. They do work with the worship team, but neither of them was on today (they have to be there at like 8 or 9 for that).

The morning went like such: At 10:22 I got up to get my shower and asked my sister when we needed to leave. She said 35 minutes (an approximation from 10:20, obviously), I assumed she meant that as our arrival time and had misspoken and thus planned my shower time to get me ready to leave by ten till as it's a five minutes drive. When I got out of the shower at 10:45, my mother and sister were both yelling at me to hurry up for fear of making them late. I exited the house at 10:48 and the car was started by 10:50, with my sister yelling at my mother to "just drive." When she didn't pull out of the driveway immediately. We arrived at precisely 10:55 and they were in the auditorium at 10:56, which I thought plenty of time but they seemed to very much disagree.