The Sabbath or Sunday?

Sabbath: God's Gift to Mankind  is a great site to go to for a study on whether or not we should, as Christians. be observing Sunday instead of Saturday. 

Another site that has a comprehensive study of the questions is Seventh Day Sabbath or Sunday.

I want to state that I am not a Seventh Day Adventist.  I attend, send my tithe to and am a member of a Southern Baptist Church.  I use the King James version almost exclusively for study although I have others on hand.  After I was saved by the Grace of God (reborn, born again, regenerated, etc.) on February 22, 1992 at about 7:30 pm, I attended a Gospel Hall  (Non-Denominational church) for 8 years.  After a meeting and I saw that my presence was causing some strife, I left and after about 2 years of not attending anywhere regularly, my husband and I went to the small Baptist church about 2 miles from home.

I find myself getting ever more exasperated at the failure of mainline and non-denominational churches to follow the Word of God in even the smallest thing.  Besides looking at the failures of the churches, I can overlook my own failures.

We are (us Christians) as a whole wandering woefully far from the Bible.  We allow, in fact encourage, those who are living in sin to participate in the choir, teach Sunday School and head committees.  We have Christmas trees on the altar, Santa comes to visit the children in Sunday School or the Fellowship/Family Life buildings, we have festivities on Halloween encouraging our children and grandchildren to dress up in costumes and we wonder why they no longer attend church when they become teenagers or young adults.  I can tell you why they quit coming.  They just found better entertainment elsewhere.

We have puppet "ministries" that take the place of worship services.  We have slide shows on missionary work on prayer meeting nights.  Family night segregates the family and breaks in down into "age appropriate groups".

A child professes Salvation when he is 7 and a Sunday School teacher asks him what Santa's going to bring him for Christmas.  He states that he does not believe in Santa.  She then castigates him for not believing in anything when a somewhat disturbed onlooker interferes and says the child believes in Jesus Christ as his Savior, what more does he need?  And we wonder why our children are confused.

Shame on us.  We have become so much like the world that extremely few of us would be immediately arrested if Christianity became illegal.

Are we so much like the world that we let the world dictate when we are to worship?  After reading the Scriptures associated with the articles, I am leaning in the affirmative. 

After years of going along with the crowd, I am beginning to see that the world of Christianity may actually, more accurately be called "Christendumb".

"Good" Christian parents leave the rearing of their children to the schools.  Children used to start school at the first grade at around age 6.  Now the government would prefer that we take them home from the hospital and dump them in government sanctioned day care while we work to support the government.

If we have failed to follow Scripture in so many ways, it might just be, that like the sheep we are compared to we have followed the wrong voice when it comes to the Sabbath.  Just because we have always done it a certain way, does not make it so.  The traditions of men should never replace the commandments of God.

We fight over silly things in the church: carpet color, paint color, redecorating the vestibule, putting in another bathroom and on and on.  I was even talked about once because I showed up with a hat on in church.  I know this because the man approached the preacher about it within earshot and he obviously wanted me to hear what he said.  The preacher had to tell the man that actually it was proper and a woman should have her head covered.  I did not wear a hat again because it caused strife.  I should have kept doing what was right instead of "going along" with the crowd.

What do I think?  I think we just might be wrong by changing to Sunday. I think we go along with things and say, "What's the harm?"  The harm is it is just another step away from what is right in the sight of God.

What am I going to do about it?  I don't know just yet.  That is a matter for prayer and study.  I need to be absolutely certain.  I have to read those Scriptures again and again and ask HIM for guidance.