The Purpose of Sunday Service in the Church!

As we read in Acts 20:7 it is recorded 'Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight.' This scripture is important to those wishing to worship the Lord acceptably today for it reveals a pertinent fact concerning the worship in the Church as established by the Holy Spirit through the apostles.

First this Scripture indicates that the day of worship had been changed from the Sabbath (Saturday) to the first day of the week (Sunday). Why? It seems obvious that the day was to be memorial to the Lord's resurrection and to the opening of the Church, both of which came to pass on a Sunday when the Church was opened and the Holy Spirit was given to men.

It is expressly stated 'We having been assembled to break bread'. Nothing could be more intelligible. The Church had come together for the purpose of breaking bread. The term 'breaking bread. the term 'breaking bread' is used in Scripture either for simple eating or for partaking of the Lord's Supper, the memorial feast which the Lord Himself had instituted at that last Passover - see Matt 26:17-29,' Mark 14:12-25: Luke 22:7-20 and John 13:1-32.

This was indicated as a part of the new lifestyle for the Christians - see Acts 2:42 - and was shown to be an ongoing, weekly service of worship by Paul's statement concerning the offering in 1 Cor 16:2 Acts 20:7 clearly shows that the communion service was the very purpose for which the Church came together on the first day of every week.

Preaching, (discussion) Fellowship, Singing and the breaking of breaking of bread were the purpose for which the Church gathered. As Jesus said 'Do this (Lord service) in remembrance of Me' - see Luke 22:19 and I Cor 11:24. The day was His memorial Day for participation in His memorial service.

The Lord leaves nothing in His affairs to the whims of men. he has set it all out plainly. If we fail to abide by His design, His wishes, we an count on standing before Him one day and trying to explain why we failed (cf. Luke 19:11-26). On the other hand a Church service on the first day of the week that does not include the Lord's Supper is frustrated in its purpose. It is not worship, since it has failed in the memorial which the Lord Himself requested and which that Church had not enough love to honour. How can there be worship without love, since worship means sublime love?

(Adapted from source)
Joseph Khati

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