Sunday, March 8, 2009

Just another day?

If we turn Sunday into a day for living it up, for our sport and pleasure, indeed, how will God be honored in that? Is it not a mockery and even a profanation of his name? But when shops are closed on Sunday, when people do not travel in the usual way, its purpose is to provide more leisure and liberty for attending to what God commands us that we might be taught by his Word, that we might convene together in order to confess our faith, to invoke his name, [and] to participate in the use of the sacraments.

Calvin, John Calvin's Sermons on the Ten Commandments (as cited in R. Scott Clark, Recovering the Reformed Confession)

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