Sabbath was made for humankind, and for the creatures with whom we share
the world. And for people, animals and land (which is not an inert substance
but a wondrously complex living system of fellow creatures), sabbath is not
just realistic but so absolutely necessary that to ignore it is itself
unrealistic. Faithful observance of the sabbath may or may not require that
we idle a factory or a store one day a week, but it unreservedly requires
that image bearers, and every creature that can only flourish when image
bearers are properly exercising their dominion, be allowed to rest. Not to
do so is idolatry -- and idolatry, no matter how promising it seems at the
beginning, is the ultimate and greatest unrealism.
Andy CrouchPlaying
God
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