Sabbath Ancient Practices by Dan B. Allender–A Review

This book is a slightly warm, gooey chocolate fudge brownie, fresh from the oven, served with steaming hot coffee on the deck midafternoon on a cool fall day.  For those of my readers who don’t like chocolate or coffee, I don’t know how to describe this book for you.  I’m sorry.

 

I have been reading on this topic for a number of months and seem to be gobbling up the information like I would the brownie and coffee mentioned above.

 

I would give you some quotes from the book, but I don’t know where to begin or where to end and I would probably share the whole book with you and I know that’s not allowed.  You will just have to read it for yourselves.

 

In the book I learned what a treasure keeping the Sabbath really is for the Christian today.  Did you know that keeping the Sabbath is a command, just like not murdering, not lying, not coveting?  In today’s world, we who call ourselves Christians do not keep the Sabbath.  There is not rest, no openness, no communion with our Creator.  How do we keep the Sabbath around here?  It’s a day to watch TV, not do the laundry, work or not work; for us, there is no real distinction between Monday, Friday or Sunday.

 

One thing I was looking for was a detailed study of whether or not the weekly Sabbath is sundown to sundown on Friday to Saturday or whether we are allowed to choose what day we celebrate the Sabbath.  My growing conviction is that the weekly Sabbath needs to be practiced or celebrated on Saturday.  Sunday’s worship service and fellowship then becomes another weekly meeting that we attend with our fellow believers. This book does not give clear guidance on this matter, but the Saturday Sabbath is definitely alluded to throughout the content.

 

So that’s what I did not find in this book.  What did I find while reading this book?  I learned that Sabbath is a day of play, a day of prayer, a day of building relationship with our Abba Father, of building relationship with each other.  I learned that Sabbath is not all about stoicism and silence and Bible reading (although silence and Bible study are important parts of Sabbath).  I learned it is not a day of legalism.  Sabbath is a day of freedom.

 

While writing this review, I came up with a non-chocolate, non-coffee description of this book.  It’s like Little Hotties at a fire-less sledding party.

 

Disclaimer: I was given a copy of this book by the publisher in exchange for my honest review!

 

Striving to learn and live God's purposes,