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The Real Marriage Podcast

Why Rest Matters

The Real Marriage Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.7919 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Q&A Series // Episode 10 Question: What does it look like to Sabbath with your significant other, if they have different ways of taking the day off? We are struggling to find a way to compromise on the Sabbath as a newly married couple. “If you don’t take a break, you will break.” “A sabbath is resting our minds, and giving time to rest in the Lord.” On our final Q&A episode, we are talking about the importance of a sabbath day and why it matters for your marriage. -------- For all links mentioned in episode & more XO content, click HERE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And God didn't need to Sabbath, but he modeled taking a Sabbath for us.

0:06.0

He rested on the seventh day.

0:08.0

And so he's telling us and giving us the gift of Sabbath, knowing that as human beings,

0:14.0

we will keep going and we will burn out if we do not take a Sabbath.

0:18.0

And we work out of our Sabbath.

0:20.0

So we take our Sabbath.

0:21.1

We take our rest.

0:22.0

We do something set apart to rejuvenate.

0:24.6

And then we can work the rest of the week and work hard.

0:27.7

And we should work hard.

0:28.8

All right.

0:29.2

Welcome back to the Real Marriage podcast.

0:31.6

Pastor Mark here with my best friend.

0:33.1

Grace.

0:33.7

Grace.

0:34.4

And this will be the last episode in a little four-part series. We've dealt with

0:39.9

vacations. And what we're going to talk about today is Sabbath, which is a little mini vacation.

0:44.3

So you've got your big vacations, a couple weeks, and then you've got your little vacation,

0:49.6

which is your Sabbath. And so we've got a couple of different questions. Here's one. What does it look like

0:55.7

to Sabbath with your spouse if they have a different way of taking the day off? We're struggling

1:01.8

to find a way to compromise on the Sabbath as a newly married couple. Can we relate to this? Yes or

1:09.9

no. Are we different? Yes. In what ways are we this? Yes or no. Are we different?

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