THE ADVENT TRUTH. People love to say, “The early church worshiped on Sunday.” The problem? The Bible doesn’t agree. If Sunday worship was the practice of the apostles, it would be easy to prove. All we would need is clear, repeated biblical evidence—the same way we have for the Sabbath. Instead, what we actually find is this: Paul’s missionary record in the book of Acts shows 84 recorded Sabbaths where he preached, reasoned, and worshiped on the seventh day. • Antioch – “The Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath” (Acts 13:42–44) • Philippi – “On the Sabbath we went out of the city… where prayer was customarily made” (Acts 16:13) • Thessalonica – “As his custom was, Paul went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures” (Acts 17:2) • Corinth – 18 months of Sabbath preaching (Acts 18:4, 11) That’s not accidental. That’s not cultural convenience. That’s not “just for the Jews.” Luke doesn’t say Paul occasionally used the Sabbath as an evangelistic strategy. He says it was his custom. And here’s the key question no one wants to answer: 👉 If the resurrection changed the day of worship… 👉 If Sunday replaced the Sabbath… 👉 If the apostles knew about it… Why didn’t they ever say so? No command. No example. No shift. No controversy recorded in Scripture. Meanwhile, Sunday observance doesn’t appear clearly until after the apostles, influenced by anti-Jewish sentiment and later enforced by church-state power—not by Christ. The Sabbath wasn’t abolished at the cross. It was honored after the cross—by Jews and Gentiles. The issue isn’t tradition vs tradition. It’s Scripture vs assumption. And the Bible is very clear about which day the early church actually kept.