The truth is hurry IS a sickness. Hurry hurts our health – our physical health, our emotional health, our relational health, and yes, our spiritual health.
As the modern psychologist Carl Jung once wrote, “Hurry is not of the devil, hurry is the devil.”
So what do we do about this devil in our midst? How do we heal ourselves of the hurry sickness that pervades our hearts and our minds and, indeed the entire developed world?
God have given us an answer, God has given us the antidote from the very beginning. To our hurry-sick souls, God has given us the gift of the Sabbath.
For the next six weeks, we are going to be preaching through the Biblical concept of Sabbath: where it comes from, what it is and how we do it. But the power of the Sabbath comes primarily not from simply understanding it but from doing it.
So we’re going to do both. We will grow in our understanding of Sabbath through our messages here in worship. And, hopefully, we will experience the power of Sabbath through our practice of it, using this weekly guide in our small groups or on our own.
