Jon Collins

And then Paul takes that another step further and says, you do it on that 24-hour period, that person does it on that 24-hour period.

Don't judge each other about how you're honoring Jesus in those different ways.

So I guess the wisdom is to say it is super important for human images of God to not think that they are God, but rather that they're images of God.

It's super important that we build into our lives rhythms

where we remind ourselves of that, where we imitate God's rest, and where we get a taste of the ultimate Eden rest that's coming for everybody.

And where all of the separations and hierarchies that we create in our patterns of work, all that just goes away, and we just Eden rest for everybody.

That's super important.

And how you and I respond to that will, I think, take a different cultural form than how the Roman churches respond to that in Paul's day, than how Galilean Jewish villagers, you know, responded to it, that Jesus was healing among.

But I think the point is that we all are honoring the meaning of what the Seventh-day rest is about.

That's currently where I'm at in thinking through the issue.

And, well, there you go.

There's more to be said, and I also recognize there may be people listening who passionately disagree.

I wish I would just say, you know, have mercy on me, and let's be generous to each other as we follow Jesus.

Because I think what we all care about is the meaning of the Sabbath, and that it should be honored in our life rhythms in some way.

Every person, community, and family needs to find their way, but also not feel the burden to have to make it up yourself.

There's 3,000 plus years of human community's

in the Jewish and Christian tradition, doing this and living by this wisdom.

And there's so many wonderful ideas and examples to pull from.

Yeah.

Even so, it's surprisingly hard to get sticky.