Religion was not one of the purposes of Jesus coming on earth.

Dear Pastor Birai,

With due respect I beg to differ with you on this. I have time and again requested you respond to my posting on this topic you have always ignored. Anyway that is not why I am responding to this present post. I would like to say that when you insinuate that those who gather for worship on Sunday are doing it wrongly, you are actually judging yet we who gather on this day know very well that it is not a matter of religion for Religion was not one of the purposes of Jesus coming on earth.

Religion had failed to bring  salvation to mankind. Had the Sabbath been efficacious, Jesus would not have come to die on the cross. Christianity did not by anyway replace Judaism. Christianity is not established on the law but on the work at Calvary. There is a very big difference between the gospel preached by the twelve and that one preached by Paul. The message of Grace does not conform to what you are saying here. The Seventh Day Adventists find meaning in keeping one day holy- the day called Saturday as a Christian I respect that and can never say that they are wrong or legalistic as others say. I find meaning in keeping all the days holy because of what I understand salvation to mean. Now if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has gone and the new has come. 

Pastor here below is what God required the Israelite to do on the Sabbath, not just to assemble and sing hymns, but also to do the following-

 ⁹ “‘On the Sabbath day, make an offering of two lambs a year old without defect, together with its drink offering and a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah^[c] of the finest flour mixed with olive oil. ¹⁰ This is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.

Pastor I doubt whether this is what happens in our S.D.A churches. "If you buy a cow, you take even its dung" I do not mean that the sabbath practices are dung but I am saying that when you take something you take it as a package not just what is suitable to you. I think why those of us Christians who worship on Sunday do so is because of the following verses I cut and pasted here and we keep all days Holy because all days are the sabbath- the rest-

1. Numbers 28:26
   [ The Festival of Weeks ] “‘On the day of firstfruits, when you present to the LORD an offering of new grain during the Festival of Weeks, hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.
   Numbers 28:25-27 (in Context) Numbers 28 (Whole Chapter)
2. Matthew 28:1
   [ Jesus Has Risen ] After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.
   Matthew 28:1-3 (in Context) Matthew 28 (Whole Chapter)
3. Mark 16:2
   Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb
   Mark 16:1-3 (in Context) Mark 16 (Whole Chapter)
4. Mark 16:9
   [The earliest manuscripts and some other ancient witnesses do not have verses 9–20.] When Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons.
   Mark 16:8-10 (in Context) Mark 16 (Whole Chapter)
5. Luke 24:1
   [ Jesus Has Risen ] On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.
   Luke 24:1-3 (in Context) Luke 24 (Whole Chapter)
6. John 20:1
   [ The Empty Tomb ] Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.
   John 20:1-3 (in Context) John 20 (Whole Chapter)
7. John 20:19
   [ Jesus Appears to His Disciples ] On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”
   John 20:18-20 (in Context) John 20 (Whole Chapter)
8. Acts 20:7
   [ Eutychus Raised From the Dead at Troas ] On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.
   Acts 20:6-8 (in Context) Acts 20 (Whole Chapter)
9. 1 Corinthians 16:2
   On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with your income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made.
   1 Corinthians 16:1-3 (in Context) 1 Corinthians 16 (Whole Chapter)

It should be noted that all the disciples and the frist believers did not want to rival the existing established religion that is why they gathered on the first day to break bread and the practice is still there today. Not replacing the Sabbath because Chritianity is not a religion it can not replace a religion. We belong to the body of Jesus Christ.

May God bless you.

Paul