Reset: Blessing

Questions for Small Group Discussion and/or Personal Reflection:

– Dallas Willard writes: “Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day…You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.” What are your thoughts on this quote? Agree/Disagree?

– Why do we often view Sabbath as optional?

– Has your view/approach to Sabbath changed over the course of your life? If so, how?

– Read Matthew 12:9-14. In this passage, how does Jesus further clarify Sabbath?

– How, specifically, have you experienced God’s gift of rest?

– Mark Buchanan writes: “Sabbath is both a day and an attitude to nurture such stillness. It is both time on a calendar and a disposition of the heart. It is a day we enter, but just as much a way we see. Sabbath imparts the rest of God- actual physical, mental, spiritual rest, but also the rest of God- the things of God’s nature and presence we miss in our busyness.” What are your thoughts on this quote? Agree/Disagree?

– How does someone practically live out sabbath as an attitude of the heart?