Slides:
Slide: Pandemic practices:
Time spent in spiritual disciplines
Rest
Pursuit of fellowship
Slide: The fruit:
Personal intimacy with God
Physical, emotional, and spiritual healing
Unity
Seeing God’s provision
Revival
Slide: Exo. 20:8 "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 "Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; [in it] you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. 11 "For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.
Slide: Exo. 21:2 "If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment. 3 "If he comes alone, he shall go out alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 "If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out alone. 5 "But if the slave plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,' 6 then his master shall bring him to God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.
Slide: Exo. 23:10 "You shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield, 11 but [on] the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard [and] your olive grove.
Slide: Deut. 15:1 "At the end of [every] seven years you shall grant a remission [of debts.] 2 "This is the manner of remission: every creditor shall release what he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother, because the LORD'S remission has been proclaimed. 3 "From a foreigner you may exact [it,] but your hand shall release whatever of yours is with your brother. 4 "However, there will be no poor among you, since the LORD will surely bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, 5 if only you listen obediently to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all this commandment which I am commanding you today.
Slide: Sabbath practices:
Time spent in spiritual disciplines
Rest
Pursuit of fellowship
Slide: Sabbath fruits:
Personal intimacy with God
Physical, emotional, and spiritual healing
Unity
Seeing God’s provision
Revival
Slide: Making Sabbath practical:
Worship
Rest
Fellowship w/friends, family, and other believers
Life-giving activities
Slide: One more thing: UNPLUG!
