Acts 20:7

‘And on the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul discoursed with them, intending to depart on the morrow, and prolonged his speech until midnight.'

When the first day of the week arrived the church in Troas met together to break bread. This presumably included a fellowship meal culminating in the Lord's Supper (1 Corinthians 11:23). This confirms that, as well probably as observing the Sabbath (for the sake of the Jewish members at least), the church was now also observing the first day of the week (Sunday).

We note that the prime purpose in meeting was ‘to break bread'. It is difficult to decide whether the emphasis in this statement is on the fellowship meal or the Lord's Table. They would at this stage probably partake of both. However, the statement in Acts 20:11, which demonstrates that they had been so eager to hear Paul that they had not yet commenced eating, and that Paul did then break the bread and begin to eat, suggests that the emphasis is on the fellowship meal. If both were seen as part of one whole, however, the difference in emphasis is minimal. Fellowship with the Lord and fellowship together went hand in hand

The meeting would probably begin in the evening when work was over and darkness had fallen. They may well also have met early in the morning before work. In a letter to Trajan written from Bithynia in the early second century, Pliny the Younger described Christian practise as he knew it. "They meet regularly before dawn on a fixed day to chant verse alternately among themselves in honour of Christ as if to a god.... After this ceremony it had been their custom to disperse and reassemble later to take food of an ordinary, harmless kind".

The seven day period coming to an end Paul was ready to set sail on the next day. Being his last day with them he continued preaching until midnight. He had so much that he longed to pass on to them, and such long sessions of teaching were commonplace to him. Compare the long sessions in the School of Tyrannus (Acts 19:9). But we need to recognise also that these early churches too were used to long meetings. It was their general practise, so as to make the best opportunity of their time.