The Framework for Transformation [Part 4]

/ New Minas Baptist Church/

Pastor Daniel Cormier shares Part 4 in our Fall series entitled "The Sander of Sabbath”.

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Warm-up. What colour describes your week? Why?

Ask God to bless your study.

1. Read Ex. 20:8-11; Isa 58:13-14; Mk 2:27. Discuss the ways God says that people desecrate the sabbath, and the ways we are to honour it, and what the blessings are for keeping it.

2. Where in your life are you experiencing human limitations?

3. Complete the following statements to make them true.

a) My instinctive response to sabbath keeping is …

b) This response reveals my desire to/for …

c) This response reveals my fears of …

d) This response reveals my sins of …

e) I need God’s help to grow, heal, and overcome …

4. How motivated are you to incorporate a sabbath time into your life for a better rhythm of work and rest? What are the distractions you need to sand away to better keep a sabbath?

5. Have you already been practicing the discipline of sabbath keeping? Is there anything you can share from your real-life experience that might be helpful to the group?

Pray that God would enable each of you to take steps, no matter how small, to honour and enjoy sabbath keeping.