Weekly Worship

It is common practice in the "Christian" world today to worship God weekly.  In this posting we will look at this practice and examine why this is so, and why it matters.

We see in the Old Testament that God instructed Moses, when giving him the 10 commandments (Exodus 20), that worship should be on the Sabbath.  This was Saturday worship, set aside because God rested on the seventh day when creating the world.  So all through the Old Testament, beginning with the time of Moses, we see the Jewish people doing their worship on Saturday.

This all changes in the New Testament, beginning in the book of Acts; this is after Jesus has left the earth and gone back to heaven.  We read about these early Christians worshiping not on the sabbath, on Saturday, but on Sunday, the first day of the week.  Note Acts 20:7, "Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight."  And in 1 Corinthians 16:1,2, "Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given orders to the churches of Galatia, so you must do also: On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there be no collection when I come."  In each case we see that the typical practice of these early Christians was to meet on Sunday, the first day of the week.

Yes, times have changed; we live in a new age with new ways.  But the Bible is not out of date.  We would do well to follow the pattern given to us by these Christians, and really to follow the pattern given to us by God since it is His Word.  And not only in worship, but we need to follow the NT pattern that God has given in all ways. 

Thanks for reading again.  See you next week.