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?

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?
  

Take a sabbath day this week.

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

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