So, the fact that Paul says "Therefore, let us keep the Feast" [1 Corinthians 5:7-8].....the very same feast Luke is speaking of in Acts 20:6, means nothing to you. God's sacred Holy Days are simply "Over the river and through the woods....to Grandmother's house we don't go"!
But, just wait until Christmas. Then we'll honor God by having drunken parties, decorating with pagan symbols, and buying gifts for everyone.....except the one we're supposed to be honoring. God will understand....just like when we ignored his Festivals and Sabbaths. He knows his Holy Days mean nothing to the modern Christian. He'll understand............
First, salvation is by God's grace received in faith (trust), not by keeping the seventh-day Sabbath or any other Feastday, so kerry's question, "Aren't you the least bit worried about your salvation?" is out of line. TC honestly believes that we are to gather on Sunday--he's honestly mistaken, but he's honest nevertheless--and he does love the Lord and trust the same Messiah that we do for the forgiveness of his sins. We don't need to make the error of turning this into a salvational issue.
Second, since the Lord has shown so much grace to those of us who know and accept that His Torah is still fully in effect and yet still fall short of keeping it, we should be equally graceful to those who have been mistaught about its significance.
It was years after the first time I celebrated Passover and the first time I realized the significance of Mat. 5:17-19 before I reached the point of being able to give up my (then) twenty-seven years of Protestant tradition and emotional attachment to, for example, Christmas. My parents, though they acknowledge intellectually that I am right about the Torah, have even more nostalgia for their family traditions to overcome, and haven't reached the point of doing so yet. To them, Christmas has always been a time full of worship and Christian symbolism, not the pagan celebration that it has in its origins. Yet they too love the Lord, and live for Him, and have been extraordinarily supportive of my calling--indeed, they join me in keeping every Feastday of the Lord.
So let's not descend to the level of questioning another's salvation or commitment to the Lord over an area of honest disagreement--or questioning the honesty of that disagreement. If the Lord has convicted TC or anyone else by His Spirit on this matter and they have turned away, that's between them and the Lord, not for us to try to judge from the outside.
Our job is simply to teach the Word and live in it.
I already dealt what that issue here. It is plain from the context of 1 Cor. 5, 10 and 11 that Paul is not referecing the literal keeping of the old covenant feast of the Jews, since he spiritualizes the enterre discussion with phrases like "Christ is our Passover" and "unleavened bread of sincerity and truth". There is no literal bread or passover sacrifice in view in that passage at all. So Luke and Paul are no speaking of the same "feast". One is carnal and of the Jews. One is spiritual and of the Christian body.
But, just wait until Christmas. Then we'll honor God by having drunken parties
What do you mean "we", Kimosabe? I didn't take you for a Christmas keeper. And as for me, I've made my views on that subject of Christian "holy days" very clear. So, try another tune. That one is a bit off key.