Sabbath 02: Rest / An Act of Resistance

Rule of Life

Practicing the Way

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 700 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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When you hear the word rest, what comes to mind? Relief? Pressure? Familiarity? Foreignness? In this second episode of the sabbath series, John Mark, Bethany, and Bryan answer two ever-present questions: what is rest? And why is rest so hard? Alongside the wisdom of luminary thinkers and every day followers of Jesus, they discuss this second movement of Sabbath through the lens of external and internal resistances to rest itself. These podcasts accompany nine Practices developed by Practicing the Way. Thanks to the generosity of The Circle, these practices are now free. To learn more about The Circle or to participate in the Practice with your church, community, or small group, visit www.practicingtheway.org.

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0:00.0	All of us know that a transformed life is a real life, is a life that we actually want.
0:07.0	Often times we view resistance as bad because it feels bad, but that's not the case.
0:13.0	Resistance is just part of the human experience, and that experience produces transformation in us.
0:20.9	I keep thinking about this concept that resistance does produce something in you,
0:25.9	that you cannot achieve unless you move through the resistance.
0:29.3	And so that's our invitation to all of us as we keep continuing to lean into the practice of Sabbath.
0:42.3	Thank you. continuing to lean into the practice of Sabbath. You're listening to the Rule of Life podcast by practicing the Way.
0:46.3	In each season, we explore an ancient practice from the way of Jesus
0:51.3	and its relevance for the modern era. This is Season 1, Sabbath.
0:57.0	Welcome to episode 2 of the Sabbath series.
1:15.6	John Mark Comer here, along with my dear friend Bethany Allen and Brian Roundsen, but you'll also hear clips from interviews we did with a few luminaries like Tish Harrison Warren and Rich Viotis and Andy Crouch and more.
1:31.4	To recap, we broke the Sabbath practice down into four movements based on four translations or interpretations of the Hebrew verb Shabbat or Sabbath.
1:40.2	They are stop, rest, delight, and worship.
1:45.7	On the docket for episode two is rest.
1:49.5	Yeah, and I think the way that we want to frame this conversation is with a question.
1:54.0	And I think it's the question, which is why is rest so hard?
1:59.3	I mean, obviously, we just talked about the last episode.
2:01.9	Yeah, it sounds easy. Just rest.
2:04.0	Because we all want to do it, but we just talked about this.
2:06.1	And last episode, this doesn't come naturally to a lot of us.
2:09.6	And it's not an easy thing to do.
2:11.8	And I'm thinking about particularly even those who maybe are trying Sabbath.
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