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Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting is unavailable, but you can change that!

“But I don’t wanna go to church!” Marva Dawn has often heard that cry—and not only from children. “What a sad commentary it is on North American spirituality,” she writes, “that the delight of ‘keeping the Sabbath day’ has degenerated into the routine and drudgery—even the downright oppressiveness—of ‘going to church.’ ” According to Dawn, the phrase “going to church” both reveals and promotes...

especially in his healing miracles on that day, and they also set apart the day of his resurrection to celebrate his continuing Lordship. It seems that Sunday became the exclusive day for worship only after persecution in Jerusalem dispersed the Christians and caused Christianity’s great expansion among the Gentiles. The change was legislated by an edict on Sunday observance issued by the Emperor Constantine in C.E. 321.2 The great misfortune of the change, however, is that in the process Christianity
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