I care deeply about discipleship, and the calendar is one of the original discipleship tools found in the Old Testament.
It’s not quite as simple as that short answer, however. It’s been my experience that when Evangelicals speak of spiritual formation, we tend to speak in terms of practicing spiritual disciplines, or acquisition of information about God and the Bible, or we urge ourselves toward action such as service or evangelism. All are of great value in cultivating personal spiritual growth, but I found myself wondering as years went on about the way in which we in our local churches are being formed as followers of Jesus. I have been involved in programming worship services at a non-denominational church and at a Christian university, and realized that the calendar we used was forming both individual and corporate identity in those respective communities far more than we’d taken time to consider.
How the Calendar Shapes Us
In the non-denominational congregations of which my husband and I have been a part, the civil calendar drove our church… (continue reading)
Hi my name is Theresa, I hope you you are fine, what I have a problem with is we supposed to be followers of Jesus right? I do love Jesus, I believe Jesus was God in the flesh when he walked this earth and he is God. But what I can’t understand is why we don’t follow Jesus by his word and earth. Also what he did on the Sabbath day.I know that we are to follow Jesus, why are we going by something the Pope did when he changed the calendar day, from Saturday to Sunday. Why did everyone, decide that, that calendar would be the right one. So why don’t we follow what Jesus did and the day he went by to go to worship. Why are we ecepting Sunday. I also thought that we supposed to keep the commandments this is the 4th commandment. Do you think that, people are afraid to honor that day because it is not popular. all or we would be cursed, are we breaking them if we don’t worship and honor the Sabbath day on Saturday.Because we should no which day is the right day, through you all and then we could know the right day. But right now I believe the Sunday is counterfeit. But not many people are speaking up, right, especially the Jews the born Jews. And I think you all know the right things because you came from where Jesus walked,because it was the Jews Jesus said salvation came from the Jews because,Jesus was talking to the woman at the well (John 4:1-22 I think this is all,I want to say I have really struggled with what day the Sabbath day is on. We need to know the right day to honor because he Santified that day of worship. It would put us at the right place at the right time I think if I know the correct information. What day God would have us to worship on as the Sabbath day. We know what day we wasn’t honoring and that day I thought was Sunday I also thought Sunday was the Sun God day. So isn’t the day important.However if Sunday was a Sun God day, I don’t believe in that. I just want to do the right thing. Amen