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Sabbath

In Sabbath we live into God’s gift of rest that restores us, reclaims us,​
reconnects us to our source, and reminds us what really matters.
 


Sabbath is a wildly counter-cultural and life-giving practice that reorients us to God’s presence and prominence in our lives and the world. 
It helps us notice and remember whose we are—that we belong to a living God for whom resting is part of creating, and whose Spirit is moving in our lives and the world, even when we are too dis- tracted or busy to notice. And Sabbath reminds us who we are—individually and communally. We are created in God’s image, set free to live out our particularity instead of being enslaved and defined by production or consumption.

Twice a month – the second and fourth Sundays – we set aside a Day of Rest.  By honoring time spent in being, rather than doing, we move into a way of facing the world and our lives with eyes open and spirits ready.  On these weekends we worship Saturday evenings at 5 pm, and sometimes share a meal together, as our way of beginning sacred time.  Then we each spend Sunday in ways that feed our souls, help us connect with God and others, and embrace the world with awareness and gratitude.  

“Sabbath-keeping is more than just taking a day of rest...it is a way of arranging our life to honor the rhythm of things - work and rest, fruitfulness and dormancy, giving and receiving, being and doing, activism and surrender."

​-
Ruth Haley Barton, Sacred Rhythms
 
1620 E 46th Street    
Minneapolis, MN 55407    
612-721-4463

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