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Why is it, as a follower of God, as a Christian working in ministry, that there is this temptation to forget the Sabbath? And because it’s “ministry,” it somehow seems okay to skimp on family time, fail to rest, or go months without taking time away for extended silence and solitude with God?
Okay, we are not “under the Law,” so we don’t “have to” do all the things. We are not required to “check all the boxes,” and we are not trying to gain righteousness through some “merit earned” by keeping the rules. But that’s not what He’s even talking about.
Since the time of Constantine, for about the last 1700 years, the Christian religion has enjoyed a favored status with the people of power in the Western world. These powerful people funded these artistic endeavors with what seemed to be limitless resources.
But today, we stand at the end of an era. The time in which Christianity enjoyed a favored status by people in power is coming to a close.
The freedom to worship openly, and to speak publicly the message of Jesus is a gift, and we would be wise to leverage it while we can. That freedom may soon be gone, and I am sad to see it go. But … click here to read the article.
Not just a little bit off, not just a slight misreading of the text, not a gray area or disputable matter, not just a different interpretation or opinion, it’s a straight up, bold-face, from the father of lies and from the pit of hell: LIE.
And I took the bait. I swallowed the lie: hook, line, and sinker. And in the years that followed, I suffered the consequences of believing that lie.
The histories of the nation of Israel and the church have demonstrated that the Bible contains both the core of essential orthodoxy, as well as a veritable storehouse of wisdom, insight, beauty, and life-giving truths; the depths of which, after several millennia, the community of the redeemed are still trying to plumb.