Christians around the world who believe that the big day is the Lord’s Day. Most Christians globally observe Sunday as the "Lord’s Day" to celebrate Jesus' resurrection, setting it aside for worship and rest, while dedicating the other six days to work and daily life. This practice, rooted in early church traditions, distinguishes it from the Jewish Saturday Sabbath, though some denominations still observe the seventh-day Sabbath. Many Christians consider the principle of "six days labor, one day rest" to be honored by this practice, fulfilling the spirit of the command to dedicate themselves to God and rest on the Lord's Day.
Once a senior pastor humorously commented about the role of the Pastor, which I am mentioning with no offense is “sleeping for six days and then disturbing the sleep of the other people on the seventh day.”. Dear people life exists beyond Sunday. Kabugo who is a leadership coach and mentor in Uganda who focuses on, as he describes in, "Impactful Leadership" states this beautifully, “going to Church ONLY on Sunday is the minimum wage of your spiritual life. You’re surviving. Not building. Not growing. Just clocking in. Spiritual rank isn’t given. It’s built …in those quiet, inconvenient moments nobody sees not the Sunday front seat.”.
The most Christian performances happen on Sundays. You’ll be back to “being you” the next minute you’re gone from the physical Church building. You tend to only adore the gathering externally with no inward exhibition of anything worth emulating as Christ did. Somehow Christians have convinced themselves to give the limited minimum to God and take pride on it and that includes even the concept of tithes. Church as presented by Christ and the apostles in gospels and the epistles in the New Testament are quite different from what it is today. Paul emphasizes that we are the temple of the living God (1 Corinthians 3:16). And that means we carry this temple wherever we go. A temple where the spirit of God lives in it which is not made by hands. Is your temple attracting people to come and take shelter in you? Or this temple loses its identity on the rest of the days beside Sunday?
In Numbers 27:16 -17 states, “Let the Lord appoint a man over the congregation who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be as sheep that have no shepherd.” Pastors we have a bigger role to play. Read the verse carefully. This should apply to the meaning of Church today, the one who shall go out before them and come in before them and most importantly who shall lead them out and bring them in. It is a clarion call as to how one should lead the congregation. Today, our Churches and its believers’ lifestyle are entirely a new model which resonates with the ritualistic religious branding. Jesus was the perfect model of Numbers 27:16-17. I keep referring about Jesus 1-12-72 model. As recorded in Luke 8:1 Jesus constantly went to villages, towns and cities to share the good news, He modelled His vision and purpose so that we can carry His mantle. Jesus is the God of sending people out to the lost sheep. He sent the 12 and the 72 as we read in Luke 9:1and 10:1.
In the same book of Numbers 10:2 God commanded Moses, “Make two trumpets of hammered silver to summon the community and have the camps set out.” It was a big crowd, yet God was specific that people understood when they should gather and when they should set out. Church if we have failed to equip our believers for a lifestyle of evangelism then it is soon going to be a disaster. Most of the Churches are having only one trumpet today, and that is to summon people for Sunday worship. The second trumpet is nowhere in the paradigm. We feed the same people repeatedly making them obese, dull or use them for our personal benefit. Nic Howe puts it beautifully, “To not be aware that you have a role to play in the redemption of the world is dangerous.”.
Can we learn to send our people to their relatives, friends and colleagues to share Christ with them?
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