remember their poverty-stricken fellow believers in Jerusalem by setting aside a sum of money each Sunday. Paul made it clear that this observance was not merely local (1 Cor. 16:1), Sunday was the day when special church meetings took place everywhere. In Acts 20:6–12, Luke describes a church meeting that took place on the first day of the week. This was not a special meeting convened to hear Paul who had already been in town six days, but a regular weekly event. The main purpose behind the church’s