Making the Link

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#99CC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0018dfc3.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Olive Roots"><U><B>Home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="shabbat.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shabbat"><U><B>up</B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=115 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0028dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> <B>Olive Roots</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=365 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0028dfc3.jpg"> <div> <B>Making the link</B></div> <div> One of the questions we began with was should Christians celebrate Sabbath on Saturday or Sunday? We have seen that the development of Sunday happened early in the church but that it only gradually became a Sabbath. My personal view is that it is more important to apply the teaching of Sabbath regularly to one day a week than to one particular day of the week. Some Christians with many responsibilities in Church do find that a Saturday Sabbath for rest and family time can be quite liberating and frees them to give their energies wholeheartedly to Sunday as the day to `work' to provide worship for others. In this case some of the themes of Sabbath become spread over both days and produce a pattern that may even have similarities with the early church.</div> <div> In our very busy society it is important for us to regain the teaching of Sabbath and make the time to take a day of rest. If we do so, we will indeed come to find the Sabbath a delight.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>