Be Still And Know

READ: Mark 2:27 NLT Then Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made to meet the needs of people, and not people to meet the requirements of the Sabbath.” The Pharisees were out to get Jesus and were clearly delighted to have spotted his disciples breaking the Sabbath laws. The disciples were entitled to eat but they had broken the law when they picked the ears of corn because that was considered to be reaping. The Pharisees were driven by their commitment to obey every detail of the law and they had no doubt that they had caught Jesus’ disciples out. Jesus doesn’t deny that his disciples may have disobeyed a detail of the law, but informs the Pharisees that they have totally missed the point. The Sabbath was not designed by God to be a miserable day hedged around by oppressive rules and regulations. The Sabbath was God’s loving gift to humankind at the dawn of creation as a day to bring blessing, refreshment and renewal. In 1985 Keep Sunday Special was launched by Dr Michael Schluter to help our society to re