As much as I hate doing it, whenever I think about the Sabbath, I always think about Sunday too. I think we have a major deficiency in our Sabbath theology because we rarely talk about the Sabbath in and of itself and not in reference to Sunday. I think your contemplations are also appropriate in the evangelistic setting when we are first presenting the Sabbath. People need to know that the Sabbath issue is deeper than just which day. I think people would be much more open to it instead of framing it in the bashing of Sunday worship.

Thanks for getting my brain going on the issue.

Yes, it is time to move beyond “apologetics” or defense towards description. Too often we define our doctrines in opposition to other ones.