"Why do Christians worship on Sunday?"

Question: "Why do Christians worship on Sunday?"

Answer: Most Christians traditionally worship on Sunday. Sunday worship is partly attributed to Sabbatarianism, the view that one day of the week should be reserved for religious observance and worship, as required by Old Testament laws regarding the Sabbath (Exodus 20:8, 31:12–18). In this view, man is to abstain from all labor except that which is necessary for the welfare of family and society. This interpretation of the law contends that only on the literal Sabbath, the seventh day of the week (Saturday), can the requirements of the law be met.

Semi-Sabbatarianism followers, as early as the fourth century AD, believed essentially as the Sabbatarians did, with the exception that they transferred its demands from Saturday to Sunday, the first day of the week (the day on which Christ arose from the dead). Theologians of that period, particularly in the Eastern Church, were teaching the practical identity of the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday) and the Christian Sunday.

Interestingly, a legend recounted in the so-called Apocalypse of Peter, which dates back to the 2nd century AD and is generally accepted as a false writing, transfers to Sunday all of the requirements of Sabbath worship. A man named Albertus Magnus added momentum to this growing movement by suggesting semi-Sabbatarianism be divided into two parts: the moral command to observe a day of rest after laboring the previous six days, and the ceremonial symbol that applied only to the Jews in a literal sense. Thomas Aquinas elevated this proposal to the status of official Roman Catholic doctrine, which in time also gained favor with many Reformed theologians.

Scripture never mentions any Sabbath (Saturday) gatherings by believers for fellowship or worship. However, there are clear passages that mention the first day of the week, Sunday. For instance, Acts 20:7 states that “on the first day of the week we came together to break bread.” Paul also urges the Corinthian believers, “On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income” (1 Corinthians 16:2). Since Paul designates this offering as “service” in 2 Corinthians 9:12, this collection may have been linked with the Sunday worship service of the Christian assembly. Historically, Sunday, not Saturday, was the normal meeting day for Christians in the church, and its practice dates back to the first century.

Christians worship on Sundays in celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is very important to remember, though, Sunday worship is not commanded in the Bible, and Sunday has not replaced Saturday and become the Christian Sabbath. While the New Testament describes Christians gathering and worshipping on Sundays, it nowhere states that Sunday has replaced Saturday as the Sabbath. The key point in all of this is that we are not to limit our worship to any particular day of the week. We are to rest in the Lord every day. We are to worship the Lord every day.

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[Brother James]

Question: "Why do Christians worship on Sunday?"

Answer: Most Christians traditionally worship on Sunday. Sunday worship is partly attributed to Sabbatarianism, the view that one day of the week should be reserved for religious observance and worship, as required by Old Testament laws regarding the Sabbath (Exodus 20:8, 31:12–18). In this view, man is to abstain from all labor except that which is necessary for the welfare of family and society. This interpretation of the law contends that only on the literal Sabbath, the seventh day of the week (Saturday), can the requirements of the law be met.

Semi-Sabbatarianism followers, as early as the fourth century AD, believed essentially as the Sabbatarians did, with the exception that they transferred its demands from Saturday to Sunday, the first day of the week (the day on which Christ arose from the dead). Theologians of that period, particularly in the Eastern Church, were teaching the practical identity of the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday) and the Christian Sunday.

Interestingly, a legend recounted in the so-called Apocalypse of Peter, which dates back to the 2nd century AD and is generally accepted as a false writing, transfers to Sunday all of the requirements of Sabbath worship. A man named Albertus Magnus added momentum to this growing movement by suggesting semi-Sabbatarianism be divided into two parts: the moral command to observe a day of rest after laboring the previous six days, and the ceremonial symbol that applied only to the Jews in a literal sense. Thomas Aquinas elevated this proposal to the status of official Roman Catholic doctrine, which in time also gained favor with many Reformed theologians.

Scripture never mentions any Sabbath (Saturday) gatherings by believers for fellowship or worship. However, there are clear passages that mention the first day of the week, Sunday. For instance, Acts 20:7 states that “on the first day of the week we came together to break bread.” Paul also urges the Corinthian believers, “On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income” (1 Corinthians 16:2). Since Paul designates this offering as “service” in 2 Corinthians 9:12, this collection may have been linked with the Sunday worship service of the Christian assembly. Historically, Sunday, not Saturday, was the normal meeting day for Christians in the church, and its practice dates back to the first century.

Christians worship on Sundays in celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is very important to remember, though, Sunday worship is not commanded in the Bible, and Sunday has not replaced Saturday and become the Christian Sabbath. While the New Testament describes Christians gathering and worshipping on Sundays, it nowhere states that Sunday has replaced Saturday as the Sabbath. The key point in all of this is that we are not to limit our worship to any particular day of the week. We are to rest in the Lord every day. We are to worship the Lord every day.

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Thanks Linda for the Beautiful points!

God the Father is in us through Christ Jesus and His Holy Spirit for us to do of His good pleasure, for us to cease from being alone, for us to rest in Christ Jesus every moment of every day as a sabbath unto itself. Jesus said He was Lord of the sabbath which in turn makes us lord's of the sabbath and everything Christ did we can do and more. Thank You, Praise You Lord Jesus for teaching us what the more means! Glory to You Lord Jesus! Amen and Amen!

 

[PastorRyan]

Jesus rose from the dead on Sunday and He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Worship Him on the day He conquered death and the devil. An eternal promise has given to all of us is this.... Thou shall not die but live. So, let us all be happy and enjoy worshiping the Lord on Sunday. He will bless your life and heal all your wounds.

 

[Muani]

Amen. Halleluiah.

 

[YeshuahComes]

Christians do worship on this day Because they were forced to by Constantine under penalty of death. So, over time, Christians became blind to what had happened and justified their actions with many non-truths.

The word Sabbath means Rest Day in the Bible which is you read the first post carefully on the other Saturday/Sunday post/ blog you will find the Catholic Church is RECORDED in history to have acknowledged is Saturday when they did change the worship day to Sunday to honor their pagan sun-god. You would also find through careful research in many languages all over the world that Saturday also refers to only one day in the many languages and many still retain parts of the word Sabbath in them. There is plenty of other evidence Sabbath means Saturday also.

Further, in the acknowledgement of the Catholic Church, and the ruler Constantine they changed the worship day to Sunday to honor their sun-god in historical records it is recorded.

So they did change days and times in the time of Constantine, and the Catholic Church is again gathering religions in the one world movement to again make everyone worship on Sunday in order to honor the beast, and anyone who will not will be killed. So, if it is and was a pagan designated day for pagan worship then God forbid anyone rub this day in the creator's face so to speak when he did ordain 1 day, and that is the day called Sabbath, in Hebrew Shabbat.

Saying Saturday in European Languages

Language	Ways to say Saturday
Albanian	e shtunë	[edit]
Basque	Larunbata	[edit]
Belarusian	субота	[edit]
Bosnian	subota	[edit]
Bulgarian	събота	[edit]
Catalan	dissabte	[edit]
Croatian	subota	[edit]
Czech	sobota	[edit]
Danish	lørdag	[edit]
Dutch	zaterdag	[edit]
Estonian	laupäev	[edit]
Finnish	lauantai	[edit]
French	samedi	[edit]
Galician	sábado	[edit]
German	Samstag	[edit]
Greek	Σάββατο(Sávvato)	[edit]
Hungarian	szombat	[edit]
Icelandic	Laugardagur	[edit]
Irish	Dé Sathairn	[edit]
Italian	Sabato	[edit]
Latvian	sestdiena	[edit]
Lithuanian	šeštadienis	[edit]
Macedonian	сабота	[edit]
Maltese	IS-SIBT	[edit]
Norwegian	lørdag	[edit]
Polish	sobota	[edit]
Portuguese	sábado	[edit]
Romanian	sâmbătă	[edit]
Russian	суббота(subbota)	[edit]
Serbian	субота(subota)	[edit]
Slovak	sobota	[edit]
Slovenian	sobota	[edit]
Spanish	sábado	[edit]
Swedish	lördag	[edit]
Ukrainian	субота(subota)	[edit]
Welsh	Dydd Sadwrn	[edit]
Yiddish	שבת	[edit]

Saying Saturday in Asian Languages

Language	Ways to say Saturday
Armenian	շաբաթ	[edit]
Azerbaijani	şənbə	[edit]
Bengali	শনিবার	[edit]
Chinese Simplified	星期六(xīngqíliù)	[edit]
Chinese Traditional	星期六(xīngqíliù)	[edit]
Georgian	შაბათი	[edit]
Gujarati	શનિવાર	[edit]
Hindi	शनिवार	[edit]
Hmong	Saturday	[edit]
Japanese	土曜日	[edit]
Kannada	ಶನಿವಾರ	[edit]
Kazakh	сенбі	[edit]
Khmer	ថ្ងៃសៅរ៍	[edit]
Korean	토요일(toyoil)	[edit]
Lao	ເສົາ	[edit]
Malayalam	ശനിയാഴ്ച	[edit]
Marathi	शनिवारी	[edit]
Mongolian	Бямба	[edit]
Myanmar (Burmese)	စနေနေ့	[edit]
Nepali	शनिबार	[edit]
Sinhala	සෙනසුරාදා	[edit]
Tajik	шанбе	[edit]
Tamil	சனிக்கிழமை	[edit]
Telugu	శనివారం	[edit]
Thai	วันเสาร์	[edit]
Urdu	ہفتے کے روز	[edit]
Uzbek	shanba	[edit]
Vietnamese	ngày thứ bảy	[edit]

Saying Saturday in Middle-Eastern Languages

Language	Ways to say Saturday
Arabic	يوم السبت(yawm alsabt)	[edit]
Hebrew	יום שבת	[edit]
Persian	شنبه	[edit]
Turkish	Cumartesi	[edit]

Saying Saturday in African Languages

Language	Ways to say Saturday
Afrikaans	Saterdag	[edit]
Chichewa	Loweruka	[edit]
Hausa	Asabar	[edit]
Igbo	Saturday	[edit]
Sesotho	Moqebelo	[edit]
Somali	Saturday	[edit]
Swahili	Jumamosi	[edit]
Yoruba	Saturday	[edit]
Zulu	ngoMgqibelo	[edit]

Saying Saturday in Austronesian Languages

Language	Ways to say Saturday
Cebuano	Sabado	[edit]
Filipino	Sabado	[edit]
Indonesian	Sabtu	[edit]
Javanese	ana	[edit]
Malagasy	Asabotsy	[edit]
Malay	sabtu	[edit]
Maori	Rāhoroi	[edit]

Saying Saturday in Other Foreign Languages

Language	Ways to say Saturday
Esperanto	sabato	[edit]
Haitian Creole	Samdi	[edit]
Latin	Saturni

 

[Jesus is Lord]

Question: "Why do Christians worship on Sunday?"

Answer: Most Christians traditionally worship on Sunday. Sunday worship is partly attributed to Sabbatarianism, the view that one day of the week should be reserved for religious observance and worship, as required by Old Testament laws regarding the Sabbath (Exodus 20:8, 31:12–18). In this view, man is to abstain from all labor except that which is necessary for the welfare of family and society. This interpretation of the law contends that only on the literal Sabbath, the seventh day of the week (Saturday), can the requirements of the law be met.

Semi-Sabbatarianism followers, as early as the fourth century AD, believed essentially as the Sabbatarians did, with the exception that they transferred its demands from Saturday to Sunday, the first day of the week (the day on which Christ arose from the dead). Theologians of that period, particularly in the Eastern Church, were teaching the practical identity of the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday) and the Christian Sunday.

Interestingly, a legend recounted in the so-called Apocalypse of Peter, which dates back to the 2nd century AD and is generally accepted as a false writing, transfers to Sunday all of the requirements of Sabbath worship. A man named Albertus Magnus added momentum to this growing movement by suggesting semi-Sabbatarianism be divided into two parts: the moral command to observe a day of rest after laboring the previous six days, and the ceremonial symbol that applied only to the Jews in a literal sense. Thomas Aquinas elevated this proposal to the status of official Roman Catholic doctrine, which in time also gained favor with many Reformed theologians.

Scripture never mentions any Sabbath (Saturday) gatherings by believers for fellowship or worship. However, there are clear passages that mention the first day of the week, Sunday. For instance, Acts 20:7 states that “on the first day of the week we came together to break bread.” Paul also urges the Corinthian believers, “On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income” (1 Corinthians 16:2). Since Paul designates this offering as “service” in 2 Corinthians 9:12, this collection may have been linked with the Sunday worship service of the Christian assembly. Historically, Sunday, not Saturday, was the normal meeting day for Christians in the church, and its practice dates back to the first century.

Christians worship on Sundays in celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is very important to remember, though, Sunday worship is not commanded in the Bible, and Sunday has not replaced Saturday and become the Christian Sabbath. While the New Testament describes Christians gathering and worshipping on Sundays, it nowhere states that Sunday has replaced Saturday as the Sabbath. The key point in all of this is that we are not to limit our worship to any particular day of the week. We are to rest in the Lord every day. We are to worship the Lord every day.

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Why do Christians worship on Sunday? Is Sunday the Christian Sabbath? What is the origin of Sunday worship?

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Amen, thank you--that was well researched and Holy Spirit filled with wisdom. An excellent post.

 

[Saraha]

Amen. Thank you Linda, I enjoy reading and learning from you and Bro James. God bless

 

[The Encourager]

So they did change days and times in the time of Constantine, and the Catholic Church is again gathering religions in the one world movement to again make everyone worship on Sunday in order to honor the beast, and anyone who will not will be killed. So, if it is and was a pagan designated day for pagan worship then God forbid anyone rub this day in the creator's face so to speak when he did ordain 1 day, and that is the day called Sabbath, in Hebrew Shabbat.

God Wrote the Bible not the Catholic Chruch nor did Constantine. And you should worship God daily, not just on Saturday or Sunday. You should live a lifestyle of worship. If the Catholic Chruch wrote the Bible we would have never had the Reformation.


The book of Acts was likely written between AD 61 and 64. The Book of 1 Corinthians was written in approximately A. D. 55. This was way before Constantine was born and Constantine conversion was in A.D. 313.

Scripture never mentions any Sabbath (Saturday) gatherings by believers for fellowship or worship. However, there are clear passages that mention the first day of the week, Sunday. For instance, Acts 20:7 states that “on the first day of the week we came together to break bread.” Paul also urges the Corinthian believers, “On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income” (1 Corinthians 16:2). Since Paul designates this offering as “service” in 2 Corinthians 9:12, this collection may have been linked with the Sunday worship service of the Christian assembly. Historically, Sunday, not Saturday, was the normal meeting day for Christians in the church, and its practice dates back to the first century.


"Why do Christians worship on Sunday?"

Sabbath Worship
There are many references in the book of Acts about the early Christian church meeting together on the Sabbath (Saturday) to pray and study the Scriptures. Here are some examples:

Acts 13:13-14
Paul and his companions ... On the Sabbath, they went to the synagogue for the services.
(NLT)

Acts 16:13
On the Sabbath, we went a little way outside the city to a riverbank, where we thought people would be meeting for prayer ...
(NLT)
Acts 17:2
As was Paul’s custom, he went to the synagogue service, and for three Sabbaths in a row, he used the Scriptures to reason with the people.
(NLT)

Sunday Worship
However, some Christians believe the early church began meeting on Sundays soon after Christ rose from the dead, in honor of the Lord's resurrection, which took place on a Sunday, or the first day of the week. This verse has Paul instructing the churches to meet together on the first day of the week (Sunday) to give offerings:
1 Corinthians 16:1-2
Now about the collection for God's people: Do what I told the Galatian churches to do. On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made.
(NIV)

And when Paul met with believers in Troas to worship and celebrate communion, they gathered on the first day of the week:
Acts 20:7
On the first day of the week, we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.
(NIV)
While some believe the transition from Saturday to Sunday worship began right after the resurrection, others see the change as a gradual progression over the course of history.

Today, many Christian traditions believe Sunday is the Christian Sabbath day. They base this concept on verses like Mark 2:27-28 and Luke 6:5 where Jesus says he is "Lord even of the Sabbath," implying that he has the power to change the Sabbath to a different day. Christian groups that adhere to a Sunday Sabbath feel that the Lord's command was not specifically for the seventh day, but rather, one day out of the seven weekdays. By changing the Sabbath to Sunday (what many refer to as "the Lord's Day"), or the day the Lord resurrected, they feel it symbolically represents the acceptance of Christ as Messiah and his broadening blessing and redemption from the Jews to the entire world.
Other traditions, such as Seventh-day Adventists, still observe a Saturday Sabbath. Since honoring the Sabbath was part of the original Ten Commandments given by God, they believe it is a permanent, binding command that should not be changed.
Interestingly, Acts 2:46 tells us that from the start, the church in Jerusalem met every day in the temple courts and gathered to break bread together in private homes.

So, perhaps a better question might be, are Christians under obligation to observe a designated Sabbath day? I believe we get a clear answer to this question in the New Testament. Let's look at what the Bible says.
Personal Freedom
These verses in Romans 14 suggest that there is personal freedom regarding the observance of holy days:
Romans 14:5-6
In the same way, some think one day is more holy than another day, while others think every day is alike. You should each be fully convinced that whichever day you choose is acceptable. Those who worship the Lord on a special day do it to honor him. Those who eat any kind of food do so to honor the Lord since they give thanks to God before eating. And those who refuse to eat certain foods also want to please the Lord and give thanks to God.
(NLT)

In Colossians 2 Christians are instructed not to judge or allow anyone to be their judge regarding Sabbath days:
Colossians 2:16-17
Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
(NIV)
And in Galatians 4, Paul is concerned because Christians are turning back like slaves to legalistic observances of "special" days:
Galatians 4:8-10
So now that you know God (or should I say, now that God knows you), why do you want to go back again and become slaves once more to the weak and useless spiritual principles of this world? You are trying to earn favor with God by observing certain days or months or seasons or years.
(NLT)
Drawing from these verses, I view this question of the Sabbath similar to the tithe. As followers of Christ, we are no longer under legalistic obligation, for the requirements of the law were fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Everything we have, and every day we live, belongs to the Lord. At the very minimum, and as much as we are able, we happily give God the first tenth of our income, or a tithe, because we know that everything we have belongs to him. And not out of any forced obligation, but joyfully, willingly, we set aside one day each week to honor God, because every day truly belongs to him!
Finally, as Romans 14 instructs, we should be "fully convinced" that whichever day we choose is the right day for us to set aside as a day of worship. And as Colossians 2 warns, we should not judge or allow anyone to judge us regarding our choice.