Sunday Observance? (split from "Possible Sticky: What is the Restoration Movement?")

[Lordcomesoon]

Yes in Act 20:7 they broke bread in the first day of the week, but that indicates a change of the sanctify seventh day to the first? I am sorry Constance, but I don’t see it, anyway in Acts 2:46, says that they broke bread daily “So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart,”
Braking bread didn’t mean a change of the sanctity of the day, it just mean they have a meal..
It is true that the Bible does not say many things, but in the thinks that were very important God put a lot of emphasis; the Sabbath was one of them, is so important that is part of the Ten Commandments that God wrote with His own finger (twice).
Is hard for me to forget the only commandment that starts with “Remember to keep it Holy”
If we are Gentiles or Jews? The answer is in the Bible, all who accept Christ and fallow His steps is a “spiritual Jew”; Jesus kept the Sabbath, I will keep the Sabbath.

[Frame1520]

But I am also a little bit confuse, it looks for me that you observe Sun day as the day to worship the Lord!!! When the Bible does not say anything about the first day of the week been sanctified or the seventh day been change to Sunday; from the beginning to the end of the Bible it talks about the seventh day Sabbath.
Like I said, I’m just curious.

See Acts 20:7
7On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.

Hope that is somewhat informative!

[Frame1520]

well nevermind, as I was researching my post, I see you already posted. If you look at how the calendar of the time period was setup though, you will see that sunday was considered the first day of the week. We choose to go by that because it does not explicity state that we are to meet on the 7th day of the week.

Besides, the 1st day of the week is symbolic of the resurrection of Christ from the grave. I understand old testament commandments, yet, after Jesus was dead, buried, and resurrected, things changed. That does not discount the commandments by any means, but Jesus died on the cross so that our sins would be forgiven.

Let us not forget that when people followed the Law, they had to follow ALL of the Law. No one could do that, except for Jesus because he was the perfect lamb of God. Before Christ died, people had to sacrifice burnt offerings to appease God, but Jesus was the attoning sacrifice, thus rendering following all of the law unnecessary.

I don't like to argue about little things, but anyone is free to worship when they want. The bible does not tell me that I must worship on saturday, so therefore, I choose not to.

Interesting topic though...probably deserved its own thread.

[woman.at.the.well]

Here is a brief description of what Breaking of Bread means from Wikipedia -

The Lord's Supper and the Breaking of Bread are terms that the New Testament (1 Corinthians 11:20; Acts 2:42, 20:7) applies to celebration of the Eucharist. The first of these terms tends to be preferred by "minimalist" traditions, especially those strongly influenced by Huldrych (or Ulrich) Zwingli (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huldrych_Zwingli) and the Restoration Movement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_Movement). The Lord's Supper is also a common term among Lutherans, as is the sacrament of the altar. Other Churches and denominations also use these terms, but generally not as their basic, routine term.

See this link for further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_of_Bread

Lordcomesoon - you are quoting a portion of scripture from Acts 2:42-47:
The Fellowship of the Believers

42They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. 44All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. 46Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

As you can see from this - they did BOTH. The broke bread (communion) AND ate together. The two are different events. Not to be argumentative at all. That's not my point. I am researching things such as this subject matter as well and hope to learn from this thread and what is written.

Hope what I wrote, helped as well. I look forward to seeing some more information. Frame1520 is exceptionally knowledgable in RM practices and is very helpful as well. He has a very Christlike manner of putting things and I highly respect that!