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NASB | Acts 20:7 ¶ On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul began talking to them, intending to leave the next day, and he prolonged his message until midnight. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 20:7 ¶ Now on the first day of the week (Sunday), when we were gathered together to break bread (share communion), Paul began talking with them, intending to leave the next day; and he kept on with his message until midnight. |
Subject: PROOF OF WORSHIP ON SUNDAY |
Bible Note: Dear Searcher, If you will actually read the canons of the First Nicene Counsel you will find that the church fathers did not "change the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday." This is a myth promulgated by many Sabbatarian groups and by Muhammadists. In fact, the tradition of Sunday service goes back much farther than 325 AD. Ignacius comments on Sunday worship observance in a letter in 110; Barnabas -- although possibly not the Barnabas of Acts -- asserts Sunday worship in 130; Justin Martyr in 150; and Tertullian stated in around 200 that Sunday worship dated from the time of the Apostles. Christian worship on the first day of the week is not an arbitrary matter. Our Lord Jesus completed His Work of Redemption on the first day of the week. It is in that Work from which arises our entire hope. Outside of this Work of Redemption, there is no pleasing God. It would be an odd thing, indeed, if the Church followed any other tradition. Indeed, the fact that there is no argument on this point by orthodox Christian scholars over the last 1,700 years reveals that the Sabbatarian perspective is fringe at best and heterodox at worst. In Him, Doc |