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Volume 4 · CenteredLesson 45About 23 minutes

Sunday, Sabbath and Church

Does skipping church on Sunday mean you're not following him?

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The center · Mark 2:27
27He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

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"Were you in church Sunday?" For many people, no question weighs more. Miss enough weeks and you are called backslidden. In other churches the question is about the day itself: worship on Sunday and you are told you have broken God's law; keep Saturday and you are told you are living under the old covenant. Either way, a day becomes the test.

Gathering with other followers is good, and so is rest. This lesson looks at what he did with the Sabbath and what he said about where God is worshiped. Whether you keep Saturday, Sunday or neither, you don't need anyone's permission to follow him, inside a church or outside one.

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An add-on
Making a day, or attendance in a building, the test of whether someone follows him is an add-on; he kept the Sabbath for people, and promised to be wherever two or three gather in his name.

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