Why Not Sunday?
"If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come." —2 Corinthians 5:17 If you were to pull out a calendar and count, you would discover that there are 46 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday. Yet we talk about the 40 days of lent. The reason for this is simple. We do not count Sundays as part of Lent. This begs the question, why do we not observe the Lenten fast on Sundays? Because of the Eighth Day. In six days, according to the book of Genesis, God created all that was. God gave instructions to the Israelites that they also should work for six days, but set the seventh day apart for God. This was the origins of the seven-day week. Jesus was crucified on Friday, “rested” in the grave on Saturday (the Sabbath), and was resurrected on what some ancient theologians call “the eighth day of creation;” for it was in that resurrection that all things were created anew. Through that resurrection on Sunday, we, who are in