Sunday

Christians worship on Sunday.  It is interesting to see how the day of worship changed from Saturday, under the Jewish system, to Sunday as Christianity began.  And the timing of this change is also telling.  So we will look a bit further in this brief study of worship.

It is noteworthy that Jesus was a good Jew.  He kept the Jewish Law during His lifetime, including worshipping on the seventh day of the week, Saturday.  Emphasis on Saturday worship was instituted by God, setting this day aside to remember that God created the world in 6 days and rested on the seventh day.  During Jesus' ministry He never taught His followers to change from this day of worship, or really to make any change in following the Jewish Law.  But a big change was coming....

Jesus left the beginnings of the Christian Way to His apostles and other disciples.  Jesus was crucified on Friday and raised on Sunday.  He instructed His apostles to wait in Jerusalem for power to come to them from the Holy Spirit.  This occurred on Sunday.  Then as the apostles begin their work, they bring a total new Way.  A part of this Way is the beginnings of Sunday worship...and the putting away of all Jewish worship and following the Jewish Law.  We see Christian worship after Jesus left the earth always being on Sunday.  An example of this is shown in Acts 20:7, "Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread....." (take the Lord's Supper). 

Today there are still people trying to hold on to parts of the Jewish Law as Christians.  But the NT is clear that the Old Law, the Jewish Law, has been fulfilled, has been replaced by the Christian Way.  If anyone tried to serve God by keeping the Jewish Law, they could not keep it perfectly anymore, making it ineffective.  The only way to God now is through Jesus; and Jesus made this clear through His teaching. 

There is a trend today to worship God on Saturday instead of Sunday.  Many do this on Saturday night out of convenience, freeing up Sunday for other things.  This is not following the NT pattern.  There was a reason that the Christians in the Bible made a point of worshipping on Sunday, the first day of the week.  We need to follow this pattern to be pleasing to our God.

Thanks for reading again.  Feel the love.