REDISCOVERING SABBATH
One of our Rhythms of Grace at Liberti Church is sabbath: the biblical practice of resting for a full day each week. Mirroring the pattern of God in creating the world, sabbath is meant to be a weekly reminder that God is God and we are not.
About 30 years ago, Wendell Berry warned: “It’s easy…to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.”
Isn't that true? The internal and external pressures of our world constantly lead us away from our creatureliness into some kind of limitless existence as a machine.
Consequently, most of us aren’t good at or faithful with the practice of sabbath.
And it’s not something that we will magically become good unless God transforms our thinking, our practices, and ultimately our hearts - changing our disordered loves, priorities, and idols of productivity, efficiency, and accomplishment into true belief and dependence.
So join us this July as we seek to rediscover the command and gift of sabbath. As a church, we’re intentionally stripping down our Sunday services and church programs for the month. And as both individuals and a community, we’ll call each other to begin or renew our practice of sabbath.
Borrowing a helpful framework from Practicing the Way, we’ll spend our 4 weeks in July considering what it means to stop, rest, worship, and delight as part of rediscovering sabbath.
Schedule
July 6: Rest
July 13: Stop
July 20: Delight
July 27: Worship