Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

320 • P LANTING C HURCHES AMONG THE C ITY ’ S P OOR : V OLUME 2

b. One weekly (Sabbath), one monthly (the new moon)

c. Leviticus 23 as biblical description of some of the key festivals and feasts

d. All days of festival included feasts except the Day of Atonement (a fast)

e. Feast of Purim added later, along with Dedication (cf. John 10.22)

f. Worship as ritual drama (remembrance and re-enactment)

2. Gentile Christianity (after the first century)

a. Exempted from literal law obedience (the council of Jerusalem, Acts 15)

b. Destruction of the Temple in AD 70, prominence of Gentile form

c. Christian calendar consisted of Christian holy-days shortly thereafter

d. The Lord’s Day, Sunday

e. Fasts on Wednesday and Friday (opposed to Jewish on Monday and Thursday)

f. Borrowed from Judaism – Easter ( Pascha , i.e., the Passover)

g. Ascension Day, Epiphany, and Christmas

h. Trinity Sunday (10th c., western)

F. Summary of Liturgical theology: celebrates the course of the Revelation story culminating in the life, death, exaltation, and return of Christ