I was thinking again about Marva Dawn’s book Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting (Eerdmans, 1989) and reflecting on how terribly we keep that sabbath commandment as Christians in our culture.
Having just finished the season of Lent, I am wondering out loud how to recover “sabbath keeping” as Christian communal discipline. Like fasting, it is better kept (and best kept?) as a community in Christ.
What would it mean for our common life together (see the Acts reading (4:32-35) from Sunday) to keep the Sabbath? How might we be shaped differently by a communal commitment–shaped and driven of course by the Holy Spirit–to the Sabbath?