The Lord’s Day

Please explain to me why the Sabbath was changed to the Lord’s Day. Why did the Christian Church change the day when even our own Lord and Savior, as well as the Disciples, encluding Paul, honored the Sabbath?

Q. Please explain to me why the Sabbath was changed to the Lord’s Day. Why did the Christian Church change the day when even our own Lord and Savior, as well as the Disciples, including Paul, honored the Sabbath?

You have been so wonderful to answer questions, I hope you consider this one unless I have missed a prior answer to this same inquiry. I pray for HIS blessings on you.

A. When the Church began to be more Gentile than Jewish, they could no longer meet in Synagogues on the Sabbath as they had in the beginning. They also wanted to distinguish themselves from Judaism. Since the Lord was resurrected on Sunday Morning, they chose “the Lord’s Day” as their meeting day to commemorate His resurrection.

Paul recognized this change in advising the Corinthians about their giving. (1 Corinth. 16:2) “On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made.” To a Jew the first day of the week is Sunday.

In his letter to the Colossians written several years later, he was even clearer. “Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.”