{"id":544,"date":"2005-12-14T07:06:35","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T07:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2005\/12\/christ-plays-on-sabbath-4.html"},"modified":"2005-12-14T07:06:35","modified_gmt":"2005-12-14T07:06:35","slug":"christ-plays-on-sabbath-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2005\/12\/christ-plays-on-sabbath-4.html","title":{"rendered":"Christ Plays (on Sabbath) 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post summarizes <em>Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places<\/em>, pp. 108-118. I\u2019m hoping a short section, focused as it is on only one issue (Sabbath), might draw more into the conversation.<br \/>\nPeterson contends to \u201cplay with Christ\u201d in creation we need to cultivate Sabbath and Wonder (next post).<!--more|inline--><br \/>\nPeterson seems to equate OT Sabbath with NT Lord\u2019s Day. He doesn\u2019t defend his view so much as simply shift the significance in the week from one to the other. I don\u2019t think the OT Sabbath was about worship, but about rest; the Lord\u2019s Day is about worship. Peterson sees the Lord\u2019s Day about rest and worship. Well, that\u2019s the way around an issue: combine them and move on with nice prose.<br \/>\nSabbath is about quitting, about stopping, about taking a break from our work to we can \u201corient our work in the work of God\u201d (110). Sabbath is about redemption (Exodus) and social justice (Deuteronomy).<br \/>\nWe observe Sabbath, not by watching birds or taking long walks, but by worshipping God and gathering with God\u2019s people. This practice creates creation rhythm in our life.<br \/>\nWork and Sabbath belong together and we learn what each is from the other. \u201cThere is more to work than work \u2013 there is God\u201d (116). The \u201cun-sabbathed workplace [is] a breeding ground for idols\u201d (116). \u201cWhen we work we are most god-like, which means that it is in our work that it is easiest to develop god-pretensions. Un-sabbathed, our work becomes the entire context in which we define our lives\u201d (117).<br \/>\n\u201cSabbath-instructed Christians can begin by reimagining, restructuring, and restoring the Lord\u2019s Day as a day that cultivates not-doing, not-saying \u2013 freeing the people around us to do nothing on the Lord\u2019s Day\u201d (118).<br \/>\nI\u2019m not a sabbatarian in an exegetical sense: I don\u2019t think Lord\u2019s Day fulfills Sabbath. I do believe we need a day of rest from our work; I do believe we need to gather for worship with God\u2019s people. And so I like the entire sweep of his ideas here, and I like the specifics \u2013 but I see him combining Sabbath with Lord\u2019s Day into a day of restful worship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post summarizes Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, pp. 108-118. I\u2019m hoping a short section, focused as it is on only one issue (Sabbath), might draw more into the conversation. 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