The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer & John Ortberg

Author:John Mark Comer & John Ortberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2019-10-28T16:00:00+00:00

What a stunning line. Here we are, thousands of years later, reading and rereading it. Yet sadly, often misreading it. In context, Jesus was beating up on a legalistic, guilt-heavy religious culture that had totally missed the Father’s heart behind the command to slow down one day a week. Translation: a culture that was (in this area) the exact opposite of our own.

First-century Jews needed to hear the second half of that command: “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.” They had it backward, cart before the horse and all that.

Fast-forward to the twenty-first century: we aren’t legalistic about the Sabbath—most of us don’t even practice Sabbath at all. A day off? Sure. Sunday worship? When I can. But Sabbath? Very few of us even know what that is, exactly.

The Sabbath isn’t a new idea; it predates Jesus by millennia. It’s just new to us.10

My fellow Portlander and dear friend A. J. Swoboda wrote this:

[The Sabbath] has largely been forgotten by the church, which has uncritically mimicked the rhythms of the industrial and success-obsessed West. The result? Our road-weary, exhausted churches have largely failed to integrate Sabbath into their lives as vital elements of Christian discipleship. It is not as though we do not love God—we love God deeply. We just do not know how to sit with God anymore.

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