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Originally Posted by Pergamum  Blueridge Baptist:
You mention your daughter concluding that eating out and shopping were against the Sabbath and she seems to have picked that up recently as your church has begun speaking on the Sabbath.
Let me ask, from the pulpit is your church giving out specific commands on how to honor the Sabbath? Or is your church giving the general teaching and letting the people interpret much of that themselves?
For instance, if you are trying to get your church to switchover to a respect of the Sabbath, is it wise to teach that one cannot absolutely eat out or shop on the Sabbath?
What if one is stuck on the road and travelling. One must eat and sleep somewhere. Can we stay overnight in a hotel on a Sunday? It causes someone work. What of civil service jobs; nurses, docs, pilice even water pipe and electric people and snow plow people. What of pastors who travel for services, etc.
I have seen in a few cases where churches often get TOO zealous over the Sabbath and bound people too tightly. Others, hearing of this, become less likely to honor the Sabbath and resist their own pastors when he starts introducing the themes.
I rejoice that your church wants to honor the sabbath, by the way. |
Actually brother, she saw this long before the confession of faith was being taught. I had been struggling with the issue for a couple of years myself and did not know it but my daughter was as well. When we finally sat down to discuss it we were already on the same page.
As to your question about exceptions, I suppose there are some. There are certainly things that have to be done by nescessity. I feel for those who must work on the Lord's day. It is not a legalistic ritual to us but a genuine longing for the day to sanctify it. Each person must answer these things in his own conscience. All pastors have to "work" on the sabbath imo.
With us it's a day of worship, rest, and giving ourselves totally unto meditation and discussion of the things of God. It is not a day of T.V. and sports and browsing around Walmart.
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1689 Baptist Confession
Psa 55:16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
Psa 55:17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
James Farley, Wilderness Road Baptist Assembly.
Husband of Melissa and father of Ann.
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