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Tabletalk Magazine, June 2011: 4 Views of the Sabbath is unavailable, but you can change that!

The June 2011 issue of Tabletalk asks this question: How should Christians view and observe the Sabbath? This issue looks at four prominent views of the Sabbath and how it’s applied to the Christian: seventh-day sabbatarian, Sunday sabbatarian, Baptist, and Lutheran. Contributors include R. C. Sproul, John Piper, Carl Trueman, Collin Hansen, R. C. Sproul Jr., and Peter Hitchens.

practice of Christians coming together on Sunday as the Lord’s Day for worship. The argument focuses on whether the Sabbath is a cyclical command that requires worship and rest on every seventh day or whether it is specified to a particular day of the week. John Calvin argued that it would be legitimate to have the Sabbath day on any day if all of the churches would agree, because the principle in view was the regular assembling of the saints for corporate worship and for the observation of rest.
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