Quick Q&A: Does the Bible say we should go to church on Sunday?

Answer: “Thou shalt observe Sunday” is not found in the Bible! What the Bible does say is clear. Deuteronomy 5:12  states, "Observe the Sabbath day,  (the seventh day)  to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you."

This same passage goes on to tell us WHY the Fourth Commandment is still important to follow. Deuteronomy 5:15, "And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.”Observe the Sabbath day to keep it Holy.”

The Sabbath day was initiated in the Garden of Eden.  Exodus 20:8-11 states, "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.  For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it."

Observance of the seventh-day Sabbath is one of the Ten Commandments, and the Bible does not indicate that the seventh-day Sabbath has ever been replaced by going to church on the first day of the week, Sunday. Christ Himself kept the seventh-day Sabbath, so wouldn’t one think that if He wanted to change the Sabbath day, He would have made the change clear during His ministry?