“Why Sunday? Why Every Sunday?”

Sunday, July 13, 2025

It’s no surprise that, in this church, we believe in the imperative of assembling for worship on Sundays. We believe in this model because the Bible teaches that it should be so. In consideration of the Lord’s resurrection, the apostles led his church to assemble on the first day of each week, and the Spirit preserved the knowledge of such things to be known and followed by saints in all places and times.

Consider three reasons why this is to be viewed as the authorized and prescribed day of worship:

First, in recorded New Testament practice there is certainly something special about the first day of the week. It was when the saints in Troas had assembled to break bread (Ac. 20:7-12), and it was the day on which Paul commanded the Corinthians to contribute for the poor in Jerusalem (1 Cr. 16:1-4). Taken together, these texts imply that first-day assemblies were a regular practice and that such practice was met with the apostles’ approval.

Second, the earliest Christian writings after the New Testament testify that our brothers and sisters observed the first day of the week as special. One, in particular, noted that Christians were “no longer keeping the Sabbath but living in accordance with the Lord’s day.”

Third, it is patently sensible that Christians would meet on the first day of the week, since this is the day on which Christ defeated death and effected our salvation! We celebrate this day, and we use it to worship the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ—as well as Jesus himself—for his “grace upon grace” that saves us from sin.

- Dan Lankford, minister

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