Mark 2: 27 "Then Jesus said to them, 'The Sabbath was made to meet the needs of people, and not people to meet the requirements of the Sabbath."
In our house when I was a child at home, we had rules to follow on Sunday supposedly to please God. No going outside to play. Reading only Sunday School papers. We could do homework. We had to change out of our church clothes and hang them up for the next week. And on and on the rules went. Today, I no longer meet a list of rules, but I do keep it as a day of fellowship with God's people and visiting in the afternoon. Meeting with God's people encourages me for the week ahead and helps me to remain faithful to reading God's word and practicing it. Fellowship is imperative for growth in the Christian life. Even though we do not meet on the formal Sabbath day, which is Saturday, but instead the resurrection day, which is Sunday, it is the fellowship that counts. The disciples were together in a room because Jesus had instructed them to meet together and he would come and meet them there. A person separated from fellowship will soon lose the glow of the Christian life and find themselves most miserable.
In our house when I was a child at home, we had rules to follow on Sunday supposedly to please God. No going outside to play. Reading only Sunday School papers. We could do homework. We had to change out of our church clothes and hang them up for the next week. And on and on the rules went. Today, I no longer meet a list of rules, but I do keep it as a day of fellowship with God's people and visiting in the afternoon. Meeting with God's people encourages me for the week ahead and helps me to remain faithful to reading God's word and practicing it. Fellowship is imperative for growth in the Christian life. Even though we do not meet on the formal Sabbath day, which is Saturday, but instead the resurrection day, which is Sunday, it is the fellowship that counts. The disciples were together in a room because Jesus had instructed them to meet together and he would come and meet them there. A person separated from fellowship will soon lose the glow of the Christian life and find themselves most miserable.