What term do you prefer to use for the first day of the week?

Sunday

Lord's Day

Sabbath

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Bryan Riddle
1689 London Baptist Confession
Bethel Baptist Church Owasso, Oklahoma

I normally say Sunday.

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Lord's day first, or sometimes Sabbath, or if necessary I'll use Sunday. But Lord's day mostly.

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Chris Coldwell, Lakewood Presbyterian Church (PCA), Member
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I have actually heard men in my church say - from the pulpit - that it is a sin to use the word "Sunday" instead of Sabbath or Lord's Day.

IMO this is nonsense, as the Sabbath takes place on a Sunday, so what is the big problem with using the word Sunday?

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Daniel Ritchie
Saintfield, Northern Ireland - Queen's University, Belfast:History/Politics
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I wouldnt think it sin to call it banana day as long as you gave it to the Lord.

I prefer the term Lord's Day over sunday because it reminds of who the day is for. but among many of my non-reformed brethren I often have to say sunday or they dont know what Im talking about. (sad but true)

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Bryan Riddle
1689 London Baptist Confession
Bethel Baptist Church Owasso, Oklahoma

It was a position of the Quakers that it was wrong to use the old (and forgotten) pagan names for the days of the week. Robert Baillie has an interesting comment somewhere about that, in regards to the Brownists I think. Not sure; in his Dissuasive somewhere maybe.

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Chris Coldwell, Lakewood Presbyterian Church (PCA), Member
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We should prefer Lord's day, at least in worship or ecclesiastical context, I think as that is what Scripture calls it.

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Chris Coldwell, Lakewood Presbyterian Church (PCA), Member
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Did not Cargill and Renwick have a similar problem with the Gibbites?

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Daniel Ritchie
Saintfield, Northern Ireland - Queen's University, Belfast:History/Politics
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Interesting point, when we gather for corporate worship on the Sabbath, we are worshipping the risen Christ on the day of His resurrection - so maybe it is most appropriate to use "Lord's Day" in that context.

Or, here is another idea, what about Al Martin's term "Lord's Day Sabbath"?

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Daniel Ritchie
Saintfield, Northern Ireland - Queen's University, Belfast:History/Politics
Member of Dromara Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland (Covenanter)

I think that comes from the fact that the names come from a background of worshipers of stars, moon and sun or greek gods like Monday is Moon day, Thursday is Thors day, Saturday celebrates Saturn, Sunday in honor of the Sun.
Or so I am told.

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Richard H. King
Providence PCA
Lubbock, Texas
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Are you asking about a term used all the time with the world around us, or within the church?
The answer differs....

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Or we could go with the New-Covenant-One-Day-in-Seven-Christian-Lord's-Day-Sabbath.

A little much, IMHO.

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Dunno.

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Thomas Melville Slater (Reformed Presbyterian), Nicknaming the Sabbath: A Protest against using other than the Scriptural names for the Lord’s Day

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Andrew Myers
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I think Maurice Grant's biography of Donald Cargill No King But Christ (published by Evangelical Press) goes into this a bit.

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Daniel Ritchie
Saintfield, Northern Ireland - Queen's University, Belfast:History/Politics
Member of Dromara Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland (Covenanter)

Covenanters eh; what would you do with them

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Daniel Ritchie
Saintfield, Northern Ireland - Queen's University, Belfast:History/Politics
Member of Dromara Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland (Covenanter)

Usually I say Sunday, in writing i usually use Lord's Day. Not sure why....I guess that like most people I can be little more formal in writing.

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~etexas~

Great point.

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