{"id":67,"date":"2020-05-08T18:36:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebraunings.com\/rrpca\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2026-09-18T12:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:33:24","slug":"morning-worship-service","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.thebraunings.com\/rrpca\/morning-worship-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Worship Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our service is traditional, with piano accompaniment and a variety of dress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SOME THOUGHTS ON WEEKLY WORSHIP TOGETHER AS A CONGREGATION, EACH SUNDAY, THE LORD\u2019S DAY:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the New Testament, the resurrected Jesus first appeared to his gathered disciples on Sunday. A week later he gathered with them again, also on the first day of the week (cf. John 20:19 & 26). This set a pattern for the meeting of Christians with each other and the Lord. This pattern of Sunday worship was propagated by the apostles, as we see in Acts 20:7 \u201cOn the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked\u2026\u201d They met to hear God\u2019s Word taught and to partake of the Lord\u2019s Supper on Sunday. It\u2019s unsurprising, then, that the apostle Paul told Christians concerning the collection for the saints: \u201cOn the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come\u201d (1 Cor 16:2). Why the first day of the week? Because he knew they would be together in worship. Hence, the Christian church throughout history has ordinarily met together on Sunday (except for Seventh-Day Adventists, Seventh-Day Baptists, and some Messianic Jews, for instance). The transition to Sunday as the day of public worship began in the days of the apostles and was taught by the early church. For example: 1) The Didache [A.D. 70] says \u201cBut every Lord\u2019s day [Sunday]\u2026 gather yourselves together and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions\u2026\u201d 2) The Letter of Barnabas: \u201cWe keep the eighth day [Sunday] with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead\u201d (Letter of Barnabas 15:6\u20138 [A.D. 74]). 3) Ignatius of Antioch \u201cThose who were brought up in the ancient order of things [i.e. Jews] have come to the possession of a new hope, no longer observing the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lord\u2019s day, on which also our life has sprung up again by him and by his death\u201d (Letter to the Magnesians 8 [A.D. 110]). 4) Justin Martyr: \u201cOn the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together in one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read \u2026 Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Savior on the same day rose from the dead\u201d (Justin Martyr, First Apology, 67; [A.D. 150]). Sunday is often called the Lord\u2019s Day, after the apostle John\u2019s description of it in Revelation 1:10 (I was in the Spirit on the Lord\u2019s day\u2026), and it is the Christian Sabbath.\u201d (Reprinted by permission from Teaching Elder Ted Wenger, Presbyterian Church in America).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our service is traditional, with piano accompaniment and a variety of dress. SOME THOUGHTS ON WEEKLY WORSHIP TOGETHER AS A CONGREGATION, EACH SUNDAY, THE LORD\u2019S DAY: \u201cIn the New Testament, the resurrected Jesus first appeared to his gathered disciples on Sunday. A week later he gathered with them again, also on the first day of … Continue reading Morning Worship Service<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-67","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebraunings.com\/rrpca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebraunings.com\/rrpca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebraunings.com\/rrpca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebraunings.com\/rrpca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebraunings.com\/rrpca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebraunings.com\/rrpca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebraunings.com\/rrpca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebraunings.com\/rrpca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}