Sabbath

PRACTICE PLAN CHECK-IN

Start by sharing your experience from fasting last week. If you engaged in the practice, how did you experience God in it? If you didn’t, what stopped you?

DISCUSS & ENGAGE THE SCRIPTURES

1. Read Exodus 20:8-11 and Deuteronomy 5:12-15.

  • How has your perspective of sabbath changed? 
  • How has your perspective of your job versus “work” changed?
  • Where are you gaining identity from hustling or significance in the hurry of life?

2. Sabbath isn’t a rule to follow; it’s a gift to receive. Of the statements below about why we resist sabbath, which do you resonate with the most? How does choosing these things over sabbath affect your life?

  • We idolize time more than we realize.
  • We think it’s impossible.
  • We want to know the “rules.”

3. Read Genesis 2:2-3. Sabbath isn’t about adding something in; it’s about taking something out so you can enjoy God.

  • How will you rearrange your life around God’s intended rhythms rather than the ways of the world?
  • What will it look like for you to use six days of your week differently to rest on the seventh?

PRACTICE PLAN

Take a sabbath day this week.

PRAY

Jesus, may we align our lives with Your created order and enjoy this life You’ve given us.

LEADERS