REST AND THE SABBATH
Are you 'keeping the Sabbath' or really resting in Christ? Ever been taught that you are to shut down your life one day a week to keep God happy? Jut say that the assumptions we sometimes bring to that question are massively off base.
Most Christians don't realize that the Sabbath was never a "Christian thing" to begin with. It was Israel. It was Law. It was a shadow--and yet here we are, centuries later, still feeling guilty fot mowing the lawn on Sunday.
But what if the whole point was never about which day, but who you're resting i? What if the kind oif rest God designed for you is deeper, richer and whole lot better than a weekly time out for chores?
Are you 'keeping the Sabbath' or really resting in Christ? Ever been taught that you are to shut down your life one day a week to keep God happy? Jut say that the assumptions we sometimes bring to that question are massively off base.
Most Christians don't realize that the Sabbath was never a "Christian thing" to begin with. It was Israel. It was Law. It was a shadow--and yet here we are, centuries later, still feeling guilty fot mowing the lawn on Sunday.
But what if the whole point was never about which day, but who you're resting i? What if the kind oif rest God designed for you is deeper, richer and whole lot better than a weekly time out for chores?
REST AND THE SABBATH
Are you 'keeping the Sabbath' or really resting in Christ? Ever been taught that you are to shut down your life one day a week to keep God happy? Jut say that the assumptions we sometimes bring to that question are massively off base.
Most Christians don't realize that the Sabbath was never a "Christian thing" to begin with. It was Israel. It was Law. It was a shadow--and yet here we are, centuries later, still feeling guilty fot mowing the lawn on Sunday.
But what if the whole point was never about which day, but who you're resting i? What if the kind oif rest God designed for you is deeper, richer and whole lot better than a weekly time out for chores?