Theoretical
Puritan Board Professor
As some of y'all know, I've recently come to agree with a fairly strict Sabbatarian position. I've long had a conviction about eating out on Sundays, but actually following through on it until recently was not one of the stronger points in my life. However, as of a few months ago, I decided that I'd get started down the road to quality sabbath-keeping by ceasing to eat out or buy goods on Sunday and to not do any of my classwork on this Day.
I've been struggling to figure out better ways to use this wonderful day better and in a more-God-glorifying way. It is hard because my church only has morning services, and nearly everyone eats out afterwards. I have been trying to initiate hospitality and fellowship with other Chirstian friends of mine for this day, but I've been having difficulty not overworking myself with cooking or other plans and figuring out how best to conduct it. Does anyone have good suggestions for how to better execute this and actually make it of value for my Christian brethren and myself.
So on that note, I have a couple of questions. First, since many of the most straightforward suggestions I've seen for Sabbath-keeping seem to almost require having families, I'm trying to figure out what I as a single young man l ought to be doing to make this a productive day where I make it worthwhile and edifying. Also, with these meals, should I exclusively invite Christians or take a substantially opposite approach?
The second is strictly pragmatic/logistical, and that would be what sorts of meals people tend to prepare for their Sabbath days when they are back home from Church. I definitely want to make meals for multiple people to enjoy, and not just myself.
I apologize if some of these questions indicate obvious answers that I'm not seeing. When you are trying to figure out how to follow convictions, and yet you are the only person around you who believes the way you do on that issue, there's a lot of trial-and-error that one has to do, along with lots of stumbling around digging for the right answers, etc...
I've been struggling to figure out better ways to use this wonderful day better and in a more-God-glorifying way. It is hard because my church only has morning services, and nearly everyone eats out afterwards. I have been trying to initiate hospitality and fellowship with other Chirstian friends of mine for this day, but I've been having difficulty not overworking myself with cooking or other plans and figuring out how best to conduct it. Does anyone have good suggestions for how to better execute this and actually make it of value for my Christian brethren and myself.
So on that note, I have a couple of questions. First, since many of the most straightforward suggestions I've seen for Sabbath-keeping seem to almost require having families, I'm trying to figure out what I as a single young man l ought to be doing to make this a productive day where I make it worthwhile and edifying. Also, with these meals, should I exclusively invite Christians or take a substantially opposite approach?
The second is strictly pragmatic/logistical, and that would be what sorts of meals people tend to prepare for their Sabbath days when they are back home from Church. I definitely want to make meals for multiple people to enjoy, and not just myself.
I apologize if some of these questions indicate obvious answers that I'm not seeing. When you are trying to figure out how to follow convictions, and yet you are the only person around you who believes the way you do on that issue, there's a lot of trial-and-error that one has to do, along with lots of stumbling around digging for the right answers, etc...
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