Sundays

Alan Knox over at The Assembling of the Church has some good thoughts on Sunday Church meetings. Here are a few snippets, but do take the time to read it all:

“It is very important for believers to meet together. That is clear from Scripture. However, is it possible for us to put so much emphasis on one gathering of the church (say, Sunday morning, for instance) that we forget God's purpose for the church?

“…If we examine the money/time/effort/resources spent on preparing the location for the event, acquiring those who perform during the event, rehearsing for the event, and setting the schedule for the event, we might find that the event is much more important to us than we first thought. Is this what Jesus taught us? Is this what Jesus said was important?”

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Sunday is only one day of the week; there are 6 others which matter just as much to God as Sunday does. We need to move beyond the false dichotomy of secular and sacred which we inherited from our Graeco-Roman culture and re-adopt a more biblical world view that sees all things as sacred, since they are created by God.

The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all men life and breath and everything. And he made from one every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their habitation, that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel after him and find him. Yet he is not far from each one of us, for ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your poets have said,
‘For we are indeed his offspring.’

Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the Deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, a representation by the art and imagination of man.—Acts 17:24-29 RSV

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