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Pilgrim said:
1) I do agree that deliberately choosing not to attend worship; corporate worship, is a violation of the Fourth Commandment. This does NOT mean one must go to just ANY church, for many churches are guilty of offering profane worship. But where there is a biblical church that preaches the true doctrines of Scripture, enjoins hearers to be sanctified in Christ by putting into practice those truths and disciplines those who are living in unrepentant sin, one must attend. ...

2) I think one should do what one can to attend worship, e.g., [1] morning and evening service if available. There are situations where this is not possible, of course. But on the whole, I think it is not unreasonable nor impossible for most to do. ....

3) Re: reading the Sunday newspaper. Well, I would tend to agree that reading the Sunday newspaper does not fulfill what God desires of His people to do on the Sabbath. With the plethora of reading material available which most of us will hardly even begin to exhaust, which exalts Christ and is beneficial to our growing in grace, it seems to me that one would consider the Sabbath a blessed opportunity to take advantage of the time allowed to read them. Sunday's newspaper can be read on any other day, right? ....

Pilgrim,

Again, thanks for your thoughtful comments. I guess I tend to agree with you, but it seems to be more of a head knowledge than a heart knowledge. I'm having to re-evaluate a lot of my beliefs about the Sabbath. I confess, sadly, that that level of committment to the Sabbath seems difficult for me at the present time. My mind so often wanders and focuses on things other than God. I will have to pray a lot about it and ask God that he would give me a heart that would be able to joyfully and faithfully observe the "whole" Sabbath and also a repentant heart.

John