Unfortunately your post comes from a great misunderstanding of history.

The beginning of Christianity was not when Christ died, rose, and ascended. Christ was the fulfillment of all Hebrew scripture. The "body" of believers that was founded on the day of Pentacost was called "The Way" for they were following the "way" of God which was summed up in the person and work of Christ.

Jesus did not rise on a Sunday...if you want to really be technical about it, he rose at the end of the Sabbath, which is Saturday evening at sundown. Just because "we find it OK to worship him on the same day" doesn't necessarily make it right. We must remember that our approval doesn't necessarily "cannonize" things in God's mind.

You said that we shouldn't try to make this a legalistic issue, but then you say that the disciples met in their churches on Sunday and that they were commanded to get rooted in a place of worship, grow, and pay tithes....Well, I challenge you to find that anywhere in Scripture.

Actually, if you look at the book of Acts, which is the account of the 1st century church, it says that they met DAILY. Read that in the end of Acts 2. It says that the people continued in the Apostles Doctrine (which was Torah Law- 1st 5 books of the Old Testament), the breaking of bread ("family" meals and communion), fellowship (having all things in common), and prayer. It says that they did this DAILY.

Learning to tithe? What were they tithing to? Were they tithing to the Apostle of the Ages to get the "Apostle Peter's Seminary" built, completely furnished with great and grand fountains and a huge enough parking lot to accomodate every member's mule?

We need to drop this whole idea about "the way things ought to be." We meet on Sunday because that is when Constantine declared to be the day of worship. He took the temples of the pagan gods and gave them over to the Catholic church when he declared Christianity to be the new State Religion.
Did you know that the term "Lord's Day" is only used 1 time in the Bible? Revelation 1:10.

Why did they call the Sabbath the "Lord's Day?" Well, look back to the Law in Exodus, God said that you shall have a day set aside FOR ME. The Sabbath belonged to GOD. That is why it was called "The Lord's Day." Not because Jesus rose on a Sunday.

Unfortunately, we've been told too long by "the church" how we should do things. Our traditions have long been based on someones faulty interpretation of a certain passage of Scripture that someone else accepted it and then everyone after them.

Cynthia, Brenda,

Interesting that Paul addressed this issue in Acts 14. His theme in those paragraphs is that not all believers have the same convictions. "One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers all days alike." I don't have to recite the whole passage, Paul is indicating that convictions about lifestyle issues are matters of conscience between the disciple and the Master and that making judgements about others who don't share your convictions. This leads to a violation of the desire of Yashua that all His people remain united in His love. When we make unnecessary divisions of the Body of Christ based on matters of personal conviction (like Sabbath worship, meat offered to idols) Paul calls our faith weak. He also tells us who may have what he calls Strong Faith, not to pick on those who are weak in faith. Paul's desire is that Love, unity and purity of heart be our main goals, not finding new ways to find quick fixes in our lives by inventing rules which, as Stephen, the martyr, said neither the jews of his day nor their fathers could keep perfectly.