Welcome back to a new week on the Aspastor John podcast and today's question comes from

me.

Yes, from me, Pastor John, this is a question I wrestle with.

Of course, the biblical pattern for our week is set in creation.

Work six days rest one day.

But here in the United States, we live on a five day work week with two days of non-work,

which is I think a rhythm that apparently was invented by Henry Ford to encourage workers

to work only 40 hours a week so that they could consume more.

So here's the question that I have.

Should Christians work on Saturday, too, how should we reconcile the creation pattern

of working six days with our American practice of working five days?

Well, let me take this as an occasion to step back and say something about my understanding

of Sabbath because that's part of what's going on here in that question.

And then, and then, and then I'll tell you what I think about six days of work.

Sounds good.

I'm not a strict sabbiterian, which for me means two things.

I think the New Testament shifts the Lord's day from Saturday to Sunday because of the

resurrection calls it the Lord's day in Revelation 110 and says that they were meeting on the

first day of the week in X27 and so on.

Number two, I don't take the Old Testament command to keep the Sabbath as binding on the

church today with the same strictness that had had the Old Testament for several reasons.

One is the way Jesus dealt with the accusations he received of his disciples breaking the

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