What is Sunday for?

A letter I sent to a friend:

I note that the article talks about "Sundays are for worship and preaching".

Here, the author misses the point. Paul tells us that 'worship' is the transformation of our lives. He uses the word, in Romans 12:1-2, from memory, for priestly temple service and the 'sacrifice' is living: us! James also weighs in: 1:27; something the modern church seems to have 'outsourced' to government!.

Nor do we gather for preaching. Preaching in the NT is the proclamation of the gospel to those who have not heard or responded. Perhaps Paul is the model here where he discussed the gospel in terms that made sense to his hearers: the Mars Hill address a case in point.

What we do meet together for, on whichever day, is to build up one another (1 Cor 11-14), to teach one another, where each has a prayer, a hymn, a prophesy  (in the Biblical, not the foretelling sense, maybe), etc. We gather in love for each other to edify one another. The post reformation church has failed consistently with its mere remodeling of Roman priest-craft and transformed the gathering of the saints into a pulpit show.