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Volume 4 · Honest HereticsLesson 45About 22 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.

You're not imagining it. Many people have been told they were lost because they stopped attending, and others because they worshiped on the wrong day. Some grew up in churches where a calendar decided who was faithful. Jesus kept the Sabbath, and the one thing he said about it was who it was for.

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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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