Over the past year, I’ve been considering how I treat the Sabbath, or the Lord’s Day. In our culture, for many people, Sunday has become just like any other day. Most stores are open, with notable exceptions such as Chick-fil-A and Hobby Lobby. Busy workers use Sunday as a day to catch up on work that has built up during the week, and some enjoy watching NFL football all day on Sunday. I have to ask myself if other than attending worship service and our church small group, am I treating Sunday as just another day?
In his excellent teaching series The Lord’s Day, which I listened to last year for the first time when I began contemplating the above question, and would commend to you, Robert Godfrey discusses the biblical connection between the Sabbath and the Lord’s Day. There is a debate among Bible scholars as to whether the Sabbath was instituted as a creation ordinance, which was the view of the Puritans and many Continental believers, while others hold that it was not instituted until the time of Moses.
We are first introduced to a day of rest during the creation account in Genesis: Continue reading →