Jon Collins

It didn't happen simply or everywhere all at once.

Because the Jesus movement was pretty decentralized, and you had lots of people still honoring Shabbat, and then also doing something in house church gatherings on Sundays, maybe after their work day, gathering in the evening on Sundays.

And it became a really contentious thing in early church history, as you could imagine.

But the Apostle Paul saw all this coming,

And he actually worked out in a few different house church communities, the churches of Rome and of Colossae and Galatia, where he talked about, hey, different ones of you are going to treat different days as sacred and holy.

He's surely referring to the Sabbath.

And he trusted that the Spirit of God would guide individuals and communities to use wisdom and to honor the days that they felt they needed to honor

to honor Jesus.

So he said some might consider one day holy, that others might consider it another.

And he didn't think it was something that should fracture the Christian community.

Until Sunday at Sunday.

Yeah, and you're describing a version of the European and American work week, and probably Canadian and other westernized cultures.

I actually don't know the development of the two-day weekend.

But yeah, just do it both.

Yeah.

Or is that a problem?

No, I think it's a good example, actually, of reading the Ten Commandments and the rest of the biblical story as wisdom literature, where we are trying to take the deepest insights about God.

about reality, about ourselves from the biblical story, but also recognize I don't live in the ancient Near East.

I'm not an ancient Israelite.

I'm also not Jewish living in the Second Temple period.