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Amy Gannett

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    Ministry in the Day of Small Things

    August 22, 2018August 25, 2018

    I graduated from seminary with a sense that theology would change the world. In part, I was right: the truth of who God is has changed everything about who I am and everything about the community in which I live. I walk the streets with this inheritance in hand – hope for any and everyone

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    • There are few meals we sit down to throughout the week that bring such grace and joy as this one. At the end of a Sunday - one in the Word, spent with other members of our family of faith, watching believers grow in Christ - we sit down to this meal that reminds us of our call to sabbath rest. We work during the week (and on Sundays), and then we rest, trusting God to bring the fruit by His Spirit. And He does. He’s never disappointed us or let us down. He’s never left His people. And because He is good and faithful, we rest. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ But ... ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ...rest is not something easily come by in our day and age, is it? It's something we know is commanded in God's Word, but how does that Old Testament command apply to us today? What is biblical rest? How do we understand it, and (perhaps more pressing) how do we apply it? ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Learning Sabbath is a 4-week exegetical study on Sabbath. We're going to be looking at the Old Testament context on Sabbath, going all the way back to Genesis to understand God's design for work and rest, and looking at how Jesus reinterprets the Torah in the New Testament in light of the New Covenant. Then, we'll work to apply this in our daily lives in practicable, tangible, doable steps. Here are a few of the things I'm looking forward to most: ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ * An exegetical study of Genesis 2, looking at God's design for work and rest in creation. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ * Hebrew word studies on the noun AND VERB for Sabbath (did you know there was a verb form??) ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ * FIVE teaching videos by yours truly. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ * A recorded convo between me and my better half, Austin, talking about how we learned Sabbath, how we failed, and what this looks like for us today (hint: it has to do with cheese boards) ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ These four weeks are rich, and I can't wait for you to explore it! Check it out at the link in my bio!
    • Here is something that I want myself to know (and, you too if you need the reminder): our worth is more than our work. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Our world tells us again and again to do more so that we can BE more. We should work harder and faster and produce more good things (necessary or not) so that we can look back at our lives with satisfaction and accomplishment. We’re encouraged to be ambitious (something that @ajgannett reminded me this morning is not a biblical principle), and to be busy. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ But here’s the hard truth: we will always — at one point or another — find ourselves on an ordinary day, tired and wiped out, unable to produce or keep the pace. And it’s there that the enemy wants to tell us that our worth is diminished because our work has stopped. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And it’s just not true. In fact, it’s an un-Gospel teaching. Because the Gospel says that I don’t have worth before God because of what I have done, but because of everything Jesus has done; I’m not precious to God because I’m impressive, I’m dear to His heart because of WHO HE IS. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I’m preaching this message to myself this morning. In a season of ministry where it’s tempting to always be “on,” where there aren’t natural breaking points in the journey, and where there are lots of gray lines between what is my “job” and what is just fun (because, quite honestly, they overlap most of the time because I LOVE what I’m doing), I need this reminder: my worth is more than my work. I’m not defined by my agenda or income or ambition or productivity. I’m defined — YOU ARE DEFINED — by the never-ending, never-giving-up love of Jesus. And THAT is all the worth we could ever need.
    • It’s a grace, I tell ya.
    • Did you know there are actual beautiful magazines about actual things that actually matter? This lovely magazine is all about the Church (and it includes some of my favorite writers, like @gentle_leading). You’ll even find a piece I wrote about #sabbath rest in it. Support good things like @deeplyrootedmag at the link in my bio! 🍋
    • Life has been moving fast around here. And I have a tendency in busy seasons to become all about efficiency and productivity. It’s hard to rest and even harder to stop and enjoy some of my favorite unproductive things. But this week I needed a reminder of God’s good grace, and He traced out a few hours for me to do some of my favorite things. I wrote something that wasn’t for an ongoing project, I made tea, and I baked bread. These are the little inefficient things that remind us that we’re waiting for goodness, looking for the Kingdom of God to come in full form.
    • “Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them.” Luke 12:27-30
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