Should Christians have to work on Sunday?

Over the years, people have continued to engage in overheated arguments, dragging whether Sunday is actually the Sabbath day, and as a result of this, some Christians now think or believe that working on Sunday is right. The fact remains that the Christians decided to choose Sunday as the day of worship as a result of the significant things that happened on that day such as Christ’ s resurrection. It is clear that this is the foundation on which the Christian faith stands, and for Christians to choose that day as their day of worship of the Almighty God is understandable.

It is true that the Holy Bible records that God created the world in six days, and on the seventh day he rested. We cannot really be certain that the creation started on a Sunday which is the first day of the week, and rested on a Saturday which is the seventh day. It is possible for that first day to be a Monday, Tuesday or any other day. The most important thing is that one day should be set aside for God’s worship and we as Christians having chosen Sunday as that day should avoid working on that day.

The question of whether Christians should work on Sunday should not arise, if we bring Deuteronomy 5: 12- 15 into perspective. Deuteronomy 5: 12- 15 reads “12 Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD your God has commanded you. 13 Six days you shall labour, and do all the work: 14 But the Seventh day is Sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your Ox, nor your Ass, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates; that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you……….”

From the extract, it is clear that no true Christian should consider working on Sunday since the Holy Bible is our guide, and for the fact that we have chosen Sunday to be our Sabbath, working on that same day should not be part of our plans.

As some Christians have decided to be working all the days of the week and Sunday inclusive, I wonder which day they will set aside for the worship of their creator. If this observance was not that important, I do not think that it will be part of the Ten Commandments that was handed over to Moses on Mount Sinai as the Holy Bible records in Exodus 20: 1- 17.

As Christians, we should endeavor to obey the word of God, and keeping the Sabbath day holy without doing any work on that day should be part of the obedience.
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