I was listening to a sermon today and was particularly struck by a thought.
"Do you want proof that Christians in America are obsessed with doing? Here's how to tell. Go into a good, bible-teaching church in America and preach a sermon about sexual purity, and they'll say 'Yeah!' Preach a sermon about biblical authority, and they'll say 'Yeah!' But preach a sermon on the Sabbath, and they'll say 'Whoa. Hold on a minute. That sounds an awful lot like legalism.'"
This stopped me in my tracks. It really is amazing that, in circles which constantly hound people to evangelize, give, pray, and study their bibles every day, a command simply to rest, to not do anything, raises this sort of reaction.
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Interesting point, in the book of Deuteronomy especially and throughout the OT, the Sabbath is stressed very highly. It is an issue of faith in God that he will provide, so they don't become comfortable in the blessings He has bestowed. I think it is still pivotal to pursue having a Sabbath because again it still reminds us that we don't live as we do because we have control over our own circumstances, but we do so because it is God who has provided what we have as a blessing and a stewardship.
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