Christ's Bodily Resurrection: Prescriptive or Descriptive reason for Christian Worship? (Part Five)

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Three primary issues are yet to be addressed in this series concerning the Sabbath/Lord's Day issue (well at least till I'm done writing about it).  Each of these following issues has a direct correlation to the prescriptive/descriptive discussion.

First, I will address the five main texts related to the Lord's day (the resurrection texts in the gospels, Acts 20:7, 1 Cor 16:1, Rev 1:10, Heb 4).  I will try to add in the associated issues with each of these

Second, I will address the passages related to Christian liberty and the law (Rom 14, 1 Cor 8-10, and several other epistle references to the sabbath).

Lastly, I will make some concluding comments on morning and evening worship.  This issue in particular weighs in heavy on the descriptive nature of OT observance.  This is a sad trend in the almost pandemic disappearance of evening worship services within evangelical churches.

Let's be honest here if one has to have a prescriptive command for Sunday morning and evening then at least be consistent: throw out Wednesday night prayer meetings, Sunday evening, and even Sunday School (sorry no direct commands for any of these).  Then again if descriptive patterns, practices, and principles do matter, then the discussion is more complex than simply quoting a verse.

I would love to spend time commenting on the beliefs and practices throughout church history.  However, each period in church history had their own issues and confrontations.  Let's be honest for every possible protestant position you can extract someone in church history who agrees with you.  This is all too common today to take the words of a person, creed, confession, and/or denomination and try to make there position on the issue what is correct for today.  On the other hand, exegesis and theology are not practiced in a vacuum.  We are not left today to reinvent every doctrine under the sun as if church history never addressed these issues.  Unfortunately, this idea of questioning and making changes is a current trend in evangelical circles.

We will address these issues in a later thread.

Till then keeping worshiping the Lord corporately and individually on the Lord's day.

Hope this helps some.
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