“God gives us rest for spiritual purposes, to teach us to be dependent upon him, to teach us that we can ultimately only ever rest in him, and to teach us that beyond this world there is a place of eternal rest from sin. He teaches us that our rest is not ultimately a day, but a person, not ultimately an occasion, but a Savior.” - Challies
“Amazon’s seven-days-a-week schedule has already led to two lawsuits from drivers who were fired for not working on Sundays. Both claimed religious discrimination under Title VII” - C.Today
“…you don’t have to have a Jewish grandmother to gain an appreciation for God’s gift of the Sabbath. All you need is a willingness to consider the possibility that maybe, just maybe, God has written down what we need for genuine human flourishing and built it into the actual fabric of the created order.” - Breakpoint
“This is a complex debate largely because it requires thinking about the relationship between all of the biblical covenants across the entire canon.” - TGC
“The jury ruled that the Conrad Hotel managed by Park Hotels and Resorts Inc. … violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it failed to accommodate Jean-Pierre’s Sunday worship…. The hotel fired Jean-Pierre in March 2016 [for her refusal to work on Sundays] and plans to appeal the verdict.” - BPNews
Many people have deep convictions about the Sabbath Day. The Sabbath Day is the seventh day of the week. In Spanish, Saturday is rightly called “Sabado.”
Some think the Sabbath Day was changed to Sunday—quite a leap, in my view. Others think that the church should meet, and people should not work on Sabbath Day, so they form “Seventh Day” religions. Some Messianic Jews even believe that Christ actually arose on Saturday!
When people have agendas, it is difficult to reasonably address these matters. Emotions fly high. And, even among those who are reasonably objective, there is always room to disagree. Here is my take.
Reposted from The Cripplegate.
Here are three reasons why I teach that Christians are not under the Sabbath law of the Old Testament, and that it is unwise to call Sunday “the Christian Sabbath.”
CHAPTER I - WHY SAVE THE LORD’S DAY?
BY REV. DANIEL HOFFMAN MARTIN, D. D., GLENS FALLS, NEW YORK
