| If the Lord's Day is Sunday, then why is not the | | | | Antioch in Pisidia, "went into the synagogue on the |
| Lord's Day the Sabbath? "I was in the Spirit on | | | | Sabbath day, and sat down." (Acts 13:14) After |
| the Lord's Day, and heard behind me a great | | | | the Scripture reading, they were called upon to |
| voice, as of a trumpet." (Revelation 1:10) John | | | | speak. They stayed in Antioch a further week, |
| here simply states that he "was in the Spirit on | | | | and that "next Sabbath day came almost the |
| the Lord's day." Although it is true that eventually | | | | whole city together to hear the word of God." |
| the term "Lord's day" came to be used for | | | | (Acts 13:44) |
| Sunday, no evidence indicates this was the case | | | | In Philippi, Paul and his company went out of the |
| until about a century after the Book of Revelation | | | | city by a riverside on the Sabbath day, to the |
| was written! In fact, there is likelihood that the | | | | place where prayer was customarily made (Acts |
| term was applied to "Easter" Sunday before it | | | | 16:13). In Thessalonica, "as his manner was," Paul |
| was applied to a weekly Sunday. | | | | went to the synagogue and "three Sabbath days |
| But the Roman province of Asia, to which the | | | | reasoned with them out of the scriptures." (Acts |
| Revelation applies, had no Sunday-Easter tradition, | | | | 17:2) And in Corinth, where Paul resided for a |
| either at the time the Revelation was written or | | | | year and a half, "he reasoned in the synagogue |
| even a century later. Thus "Lord's day" in | | | | every Sabbath and persuaded the Jews and the |
| Revelation 1:10 could not refer to an Easter | | | | Greeks" (Acts 18:4) |
| Sunday. | | | | Thus the evidence in the Book of Acts multiplied |
| Most pointedly of all, there is neither prior nor | | | | regarding apostolic attendance at worship services |
| contemporary evidence that Sunday had achieved | | | | on Saturday. |
| in New Testament times a status which would | | | | In sum total, there is not one piece of concrete |
| have caused it to be called "Lord's day." Another | | | | evidence anywhere in the New Testament that |
| day - the seventh-day Sabbath - had been the | | | | Sunday was considered as a weekly day of |
| Lord's holy day from antiquity (see Isaiah 58:13) | | | | worship for Christians. Rather, Christ Himself, His |
| and was the day on which Christ Himself and His | | | | followers at the time of His death, and apostles |
| followers, including the Apostle Paul had attended | | | | after His resurrection regularly attended services |
| religious services. | | | | on Saturday the seventh day of the week. |
| The Book of Acts reveals that the only day on | | | | The question now arises as to when and how |
| which the Apostles repeatedly were engaged in | | | | Christian Sunday observance arose. This is a vital |
| worship services on a weekly basis was | | | | question because we know that Sunday is not |
| Saturday, the seventh day of the week. The | | | | the "Lord's Day. |
| Apostle Paul and his company, when visiting | | | | |