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It is a day of rest and worship, a day of Bible reading and prayer. We must not buy, sell, or bargain on Sunday, which is the Lord's day. [63] The Book of Discipline of the Evangelical Methodist Church Conference reflects this, teaching: [64] 40. The Lord's Day is a fundamental institution of God.
The Lord's Day Alliance (formerly known as the American Sabbath Union) is an ecumenical Christian first-day Sabbatarian organization. [1] Based in the United States and Canada, the organization was founded in 1888 by mainstream Christian denominations . [ 2 ]
Blue laws (also known as Sunday laws, Sunday trade laws, and Sunday closing laws) are laws restricting or banning certain activities on specified days, usually Sundays in the western world. The laws were adopted originally for religious reasons, specifically to promote the observance of the Christian day of worship.
The Apostolic Constitutions (ca. 380), in Section II, reveals that the early Church kept both the seventh-day Sabbath, observed on Saturday, as well as the Lord's Day, celebrated on the first-day (Sunday): [18] "But keep the Sabbath, and the Lord’s day festival; because the former is the memorial of the creation, and the latter of the ...
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Sabbath desecration is the failure to observe the Biblical Sabbath and is usually considered a sin and a breach of a holy day in relation to either the Jewish Shabbat (Friday sunset to Saturday nightfall), the Sabbath in seventh-day churches, or to the Lord's Day (Sunday), which is recognized as the Christian Sabbath in first-day Sabbatarian denominations.
This psalm gives us the reasons why. Praise, O servants of the Lord because of His Glory. First, “The Lord is high above all nations, His glory above the heavens” (vs. 4).