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The 2x2s hold their worship meetings on the first day of the week, (Sunday) the day of Jesus’ resurrection; not on the Sabbath or Saturday. They believe observance of the Old Testament Sabbath laws ended at Calvary. Sunday, as was the Sabbath in the Old Testament, is a day of rest for 2x2s and it is encouraged that no work be performed. Workers instruct: Don’t make Sunday a fun day.<\/em><\/p>\n

Old Testament: If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath<\/strong>, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord\u00a0 <\/em>(Isaiah 58:13-14)<\/p>\n

There is no connection between the old Sabbath and the first day of the week. There is a connection between the old Passover (Ex 12) and breaking of bread. (John Porterfield,<\/a> Lewiston, ID, April 10, 1955)<\/em><\/p>\n

Worker Quote: I do not have to remind you that this is the first day of the week. It is the Lord\u2019s Day; it is not your day or my day. It is not for your pleasure, but for His pleasure. We have no hesitation in saying this morning that the spiritual health of the people of God depends largely on how they spend the hours of the Lord\u2019s Day. We would like to think that everyone here, the youngest as well as the oldest will remember that the way in which they live on the first day of the week will affect the way in which they live on the days that follow<\/em>\u00a0 (Jack Carroll Hayden Lake Conv 1949)<\/a><\/p>\n

Worker Quote: We all understand that the first day of the week commemorates the resurrection of Christ. He rose on the first day of the week. On Sunday morning, we have the breaking bread and taking of the cup commemorating His broken body and yet on that day He rose from the dead. It is right to do this, to not forget He rose again on the third da<\/em>y (Graham Snow Watta Conv 2018<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Worker Quote: \u00a0I would like to help God’s children to see how they could spend the Lord’s day in the way that would please Him and that would be most profitable both to themselves and to others, spiritually speaking. We must not associate the Lord’s Day with sport or running around seeking our own pleasure. This is sound advice. We have been very grieved to see and know some of God’s people, after having met in fellowship Sunday morning, when they knelt together, sang, gave testimony, bowed their heads and gave thanks for the bread, and partook of something as sacred as the emblem that represents the broken body of Jesus and the wine that symbolized His life’s blood poured out, and then, after that, go home and just forget that the rest of the day belongs to God too. Away to some place of pleasure, to some resort where there is a worldly throng <\/em>(Stanley Watchorn, Sunday a.m. Mtg.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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