Blog - Is the Sabbath the Lost Commandment?
The blog post asks whether the Sabbath has become a 'lost commandment.The blog post asks whether the Sabbath has become a 'lost commandment.' Beginning with Jesus' clashes with the Pharisees over healing on the Sabbath, it argues that he was not abolishing the day but restoring its true meaning — that the human person matters more than the rule. Tracing the commandment back to the Exodus, it shows that God gave the Sabbath to a people freshly freed from slavery in Egypt, making a weekly day of rest the very sign of their freedom and the opposite of all that Pharaoh would never grant. The post then asks whether we still honour that gift today, pointing to the Jewish practice of stepping back from work and even from screens, and noticing how doing so shifts our attention away from ourselves and toward our families, those we love, and God. It closes by inviting Christians to reclaim an intentional day of rest, suggesting that in doing so we might rediscover that life is not only about work but about a deeper purpose — one easily missed when we let ourselves be enslaved all over again by busyness and entertainment.