Gaye Strathearn: Finding the Sacred in the Sabbath
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🗓️ 17 May 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Growing up in Australia, Gaye Strathearn faced a dilemma familiar to many faithful families: how to balance Sabbath day observance with the demands of the world. As a young girl, she worried that her non-member father might feel left out as the family spent hours at church. But as she grew older, Gaye began to see the Sabbath not as a burden but as a sacred opportunity to connect with God and with loved ones. Now, as a respected gospel scholar, Gaye has compiled a collection of essays exploring the commandment of the Sabbath from its origins on Sinai to its relevance in the 21st century.
"If this is a part of our covenant journey, all of us are at different places on that covenant journey and our understanding of the Sabbath is going to be at different places. And so let's have people grow into their understanding." —Gaye Strathearn
8:39- Assumptions
11:34- The Way We Ask Questions
14:18- Why the Study of the Sabbath?
22:37- The Sabbath as a Covenant
31:40- The Modern Sabbath
36:48- Be Still and Know
43:42- Praise
49:24- The Opportunity to Worship
52:40- What Does It Mean To Be All In the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
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| 0:00.0 | In her book Insights from a Profits Life, Sherry Dew shared that President Russell M. Nelson |
| 0:06.5 | once struggled with the question of how does a busy doctor handle the Sabbath day? |
| 0:12.1 | He studied list of dues and donts, but the issue remained complicated and complex given his profession. |
| 0:19.6 | Then one day, Dr. Nelson came across a passage in Exodus that triggered new spiritual understanding. |
| 0:27.2 | Verily, my Sabbaths ye shall keep, for it is a sign between me and you. |
| 0:33.9 | When he realized what he did on Sunday was a sign to the Lord about how he fell about him, |
| 0:39.2 | his dilemma was resolved. He said, I no longer need a list of dues and don'ts. |
| 0:44.8 | When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, |
| 0:49.6 | I simply asked myself, what sign do I want to give to God? |
| 0:54.3 | That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear. He determined he would not |
| 1:00.3 | operate on anyone on Sunday unless he knew the person would not live until Monday. |
| 1:05.6 | If a patient came in with a bleeding aorta or a crushed chest, yes, he would operate on Sunday, |
| 1:12.0 | every cardiac surgeon operated on Sundays to save lives that wouldn't last another day. |
| 1:18.2 | Sometimes the bleeding had to be stopped immediately, but if the patient could wait until Monday, |
| 1:23.1 | Dr. Nelson waited. Once I had the Sabbath day concept figured out, he explained and understood |
| 1:29.3 | that what I did on Sunday was a sign of my love for God. I realized that just as it wouldn't show |
| 1:35.2 | my love for him by operating on Sunday when it could wait until Monday, it also wouldn't show |
| 1:40.7 | a love for God if I let someone die on Sunday who could have been saved. For a cardiovascular surgeon, |
| 1:47.6 | that scripture was life saving for my conscience and for my heart. In quote, |
| 1:53.4 | today we explore the commandment of the Sabbath day further with one of my favorite scholars, |
| 1:58.8 | Gay Stratherne. Gay Stratherne is a professor in the Department of Ancient Scripture at BYU. |
| 2:05.4 | Dr. Stratherne grew up in Redcliffe, Australia. She received her PhD in Religion from Claremont Graduate |
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