Only One Feast on the Christian Calendar

• 1 min. read • grade level: 11

The Lord never asked us to annually celebrate His birth nor to annually celebrate His resurrection, but He expressed His desire that we celebrate the memorial of His death. Every first day of the week (Acts 20:7⁷And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. (Acts 20:7)), the day of His resurrection, the new creation day, suitably affords opportunity for those who are new creatures in Christ to gather to His precious name alone (Matt. 18:20²⁰For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. (Matthew 18:20)), outside the camp (the religious system adapted to man’s pleasing; Heb. 13:13¹³Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. (Hebrews 13:13)), to “show the Lord’s death till He come” (1 Cor. 11:26). “This do . . . in remembrance of Me” (1 Cor. 11:25).

Then amid the gloom and darkness,
Shines one feeble ray of light —
Some, who feel and own the ruin,
Seek by faith to walk aright.

• Only One Feast on the Christian Calendar