God in Our Midst

Most of the duties set forth in connection with the Sabbath in Scripture relate to corporate rather than private worship. The “song for the Sabbath day” included morning and evening worship (Ps. 92:1–4). If the church of which you are a member has evening as well as morning worship, if you are at all able, attend both services. We often undervalue what happens in corporate worship simply because we lack the faith to believe that God is there in our midst. Although some of us gather together in small congregations in simple buildings with poor singing, we must come to corporate worship recognizing that, in a peculiar manner, we enter into the heavenly sanctuary and join the chorus of an innumerable company of angels. A large part of keeping the Sabbath is taking advantage of corporate worship. This is the high point of the day, and it is the part of the Sabbath that most closely resembles heaven.

RYAN M. MCGRAW, THE DAY OF WORSHIP – REASSESSING THE CHRISTIAN LIFE IN LIGHT OF THE SABBATH, 84.