Friday 20 November 2009

Remember the sabbath 2

Yes, I know it's been a long time...

Anyway, I continue to think about the sabbath, and the other night whilst in bed but not sleeping, I had a rather profound thought. The reason we hear so little about sabbath today is because the church has withdrawn it from the list of Ten Commandments and sustituted another in its place. Guess which one? Tithing! Tithing is the new commandment of the modern church, and its there at the expense of the sabbath, which seems a bit whimpish in the present climate (who needs to rest?) where we have so much to get done.

And the reason that tithing is so popular - at least with church leaders - is that with all the programmes we have going, and building projects, and outreach events, we just to have to keep the money flowing in... So let's emphasis tithing (so we can keep going) and conveniently forget about rest (so we don't have to slow down, even for God).
What do you think? Is that's what has happened? Or was it just a vision of the night?