What a gift it was to have Casey Tygrett with us Sunday night! Casey guided us beautifully through a perspective on Sabbath that I had never experienced before. “We don’t practice Sabbath because we need a break;” Casey said, “we practice Sabbath because we are free.” Sabbath is an invitation to remember the freedom into which we have been delivered.
This is such a fresh way of thinking about Sabbath. So often we are resistant to this practice. Sabbath is hard. It is easy to miss the reality on the other side of this costly practice, but “what would it look like to practice Sabbath not because we have to but because we are free?”
We then examined a memory of freedom on the Lord’s presence. When have we experienced a deep sense of freedom, and where do we find the presence of the Spirit in the midst of our freedom?