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Date: 17 August 2003 19:40:42
I'm not legalistic - far from it - but sometimes it makes me laugh when I find people trying to cross Ts and dot Is in the name of "Keeping the Lord's day holy".
Firstly, when does "the Lord's Day" begin? For me it's Sunday, plain and simple. For a family I know it's from Saturday evening (when they have a celebratory meal) to Sunday evening.
Now I can live with that - no problems. BUT because they'd just arrived back from holiday last yesterday afternoon it meant that, apart from some milk and a few bits they'd brought back with them, the fridge is empty. They could have gone shopping on the Saturday evening - except for that to them is "the Lord's Day" and because the mother was challenged with "if you can do it with good conscience" she decided to wait until Monday.
Secondly, where do you draw the line? Iit's Sunday and we've a bring and share lunch at the vicarage. The vicar and his wife got back from Living Water late yesterday afternoon. No time to do a shop in the evening, but she goes to the supermarket behind our church after the service to stock up on food for the masses. Not only that, but half of those going to lunch are in there as well.
This means that the majority of the food being served has been bought on a Sunday. It has also been prepared on a Sunday. Interesting dilemma - do you eat it? Needless to say the family did. But is that keeping the Sabbath?
It's fun watching people try and work it out.