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Ray Ortlund–Is the Sabbath still relevant?

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Kendall Harmon

I wonder if the very concept of “the weekend” is biblical. It seems to me that “the weekend” turns Sunday into a second Saturday. Home Depot may gain, but we lose. It turns Sunday into a day to catch up on what we didn’t do Saturday or a day to ramp up for what’s ahead on Monday. It hollows out our whole week, because it marginalizes God and church and sermons and all the other vital things that happen in our lives only when we make the vital things also the central things. If we accept the concept of “the weekend,” we risk “fitting God in” rather than centering our every week around him. We risk living soul-exhausted lives, and wondering why God isn’t more real to us, why we’re grumpy

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2 comments on “Ray Ortlund–Is the Sabbath still relevant?”

  1. Yebonoma says:
    October 17, 2012 at 2:55 am

    You could go hang out in front of a Chik-Fil-A or a Hobby Lobby and ponder this in solitude on any Sunday, since you will likely be the only person there. 🙂

  2. RMBruton says:
    October 17, 2012 at 8:03 am

    Kendall,
    It is sad that people, professing to uphold the Ten Commandments, still skirt the fact of the Fourth Commandment by misleading others that Sunday or the Weekend, itself, has replaced the Sabbath. So, I would ask Mr. Ortlund, how was the Sabbath ever relevent to people whoi have never kept it as God intended?