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
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