Have a Blessed Lord's Day

We as Baptists, especially National Baptists, have weakened the holiness and sanctity of the Lord's Day-Sabbath. Dispensationalist teaching, antinomianism, and minimalism have all anchored themselves in African American Baptist churches. Dispensationalism teaches against the New Covenant relevance of the 4th commandment, antinomianism teaches we are no longer under Law as a template of our sanctification, and minimalism teaches that keeping the Sabbath holy is inconsequential to salvation; therefore, it is only an option (a lesser one at that).

Oh, how our forebears differ. African American Baptists in days past kept this day holy. They wrote about it, they preached about it, and the sang about it. Also the confessed it. Check out the Articles of Faith, article XV; it is a clear declaration of faith regarding what a Baptist should believe about this day.

Often times, when this subject is broached Christians get hung up on "do's and don't's." Christians should always remember that this is the Day that Christ emerged from the grave by the power of the Spirit to complete the work of redemption. Easter celebrations are foreign to the Scriptures, but the Lord's Day is not.

Have a blessed Lord's Day.