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A GOOD SUNDAY STARTS SATURDAY NIGHT!
The Jews were smarter than we give them credit. Their Sabbath began at 6 ,- on Friday
night. What is wrong with us on Sunday? It is Saturday! We so abuse Saturday that we are
drugged on Sunday, but a good Sunday actually begins on Saturday night.
Remember the “good ole days”? Come Saturday night we got out our “Sunday clothes,”
shined our shoes, and prepared our Bible class lesson. Sunday was the big event of the week!
There was something special about Sunday. There was an air of expectancy about Sunday.
It was reverenced! It was important!
You cannot be carnal (worldly) on Saturday night and be spiritual on Sunday morning.
Airplane pilots cannot socialize Saturday night if they fly on Sunday. Baseball pitchers cannot
party all of Saturday night if they pitch on Sunday. I wonder how many football coaches in
America will allow their players to stay up all hours of the night before the game the next day.
They know the value of rest if they are to be alert and functional the next day. A Christian ought
to be the most rested person in town when he/she awakens on Sunday morning.
We need to study 1 Corinthians, not simply to debate the charismatic; but to learn that we
are participants in worship. We bring psalms and hymns. We are here to participate — not as a
spectator.
Tragically, we have come to make the song leader, the preacher, and even God, performers.
(Do something for me!) We have a receiving mentality in worship. Wrong? We come to give our
praise and worship unto God and the byproduct is receiving the blessings that come from
worship. The congregation is not the audience, but the giver.
Come prepared. It all starts on Saturday night!
Charles Hodge, Bulletin Digest
Hillsboro church of Christ, El Dorado, AR
