The Lord’s Day (Sunday) Biblical

From New Testament times, the church met for worship on the first day of the week, the day of Jesus' resurrection. The Lord's Day has absorbed some features of the Jewish Sabbath, but also differs in important respects. It is a day that incorporates within it all the festivals of the Christian year. Terminology The first day of the week quite early became the regular day on which the church assembled for worship in place of the Jewish Sabbath (Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:2). There is no New Testament injunction to observe this day, but the second-century Didach, or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, directs the church to "assemble and give thanks" on the Lord's Day (Didach 14). The title "the Lord's Day" is found in the New Testament only in Revelation 1:10, where John states that he was in the Spirit "on the Lord's Day" when he received his commission to write the revelation of Jesus Christ. The expression "Day of the Lord" in the Old Testament generally describes an impending time of judg…