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Leader Notes

Session 3: Sabbath

SESSION GOALS

Every session has a point—what each participant should walk away from the discussion knowing, feeling, and doing.

• Main Idea: Honoring the sabbath is a decree from God that allows us to rest and recharge without guilt.

• Head Change: To know that sabbath is a divinely ordained rhythm we’re called to practice.

• Heart Change: To feel peace rather than guilt when we decide to rest for a day.

• Life Change: To worship God through keeping the sabbath on a regular basis.

This study is a companion to the book The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. However, for this study, we will not be reading the book together. It would be an excellent supplement for anyone wishing to do so.

Weekly Timeline

5 Days Ahead of Time

• Email the group welcoming them and providing links to that week's content.

1 Day Ahead of Time

• Send a reminder message including the time and location of the group

During the Group

• Warm-up Question:

  1. • 1. How do you typically spend your days off? How do you fill up your days when you don’t have to work?

• Questions Before the Video:

  1. • 1. What word did John Mark say is the most literal translation of sabbath?

       2. According to John Mark, what are the four movements of sabbath, and why is each one important?

       3. How does taking a sabbath impact our spiritual lives? Why is sabbath about much more than refusing to work?

• Watch The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry - Part 3 Video

• Use The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry - Part 3 DISCUSSION GUIDE for the remainder of the group time.

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