Acts 20:7 — The Lord's Day

One of the false teachings that the Church had to deal with from the beginning is that we must obey the Law. Obedience to the Law as means to earn righteousness is still being taught today, as if some believers never read Galatians, Hebrews, or Romans.  The Apostle Paul called this Judaizers' heresy, another gospel, a different gospel (Gal 1:6-7). There has been a renewed push over the past few decades to put Christians under the yoke of the Law. While, as Christians, we have the freedom to worship on Saturday, observe the Old Testament feasts, and observe Old Testament dietary laws, we do not have the freedom to put others under the yoke of the Law nor to think that observing the Law ingratiates God's favor.

One of the areas in which these new, disproved, and truly confused professing Christians have been advocating is that Christians need to worship on Saturday. Some claim that the Church always worshipped on Saturday until Constantine made Sunday the day that the Church should worship. Scripture, however, contradicts this view.

Acts 20:7 records the earliest references to Christians meeting for worship on Sunday, which was "the first day of the week." It could not be any more clear from this verse that the early Church was meeting on Sundays. Revelation 1:10 mentions the term "Lord's Day" which was understood to be Sunday. Jewish believers may have continued to observe the Jewish Sabbath as part of their Jewish customs, but Sunday (the Lord’s Day) was the day of worship for believers especially because it was the day of the resurrection.
 
This, however, does not mean that we ought to be dogmatic about meeting on Sunday. The Apostle Paul says in Romans 14:5-6:


In other words, which day we worship doesn't matter. If you think Saturday is the day you ought to worship, you are free in Christ to do so. However, you must not think that it makes you more righteous to do so. The same applies to Sunday. Insisting on Sunday gathering of the Church betrays a lack of understanding of what worship is. Our worship on Sunday ought to reflect a life of worship that had been lived out Monday through Saturday.

Are you living a life of worship every day of the week?