Faith Practices | Keeping Sabbath (Downloadable PDFs)

Keeping Sabbath Sabbath is intentional time taken by people and communities to honor divine rhythms for creation. Jesus modeled how to keep sabbath both inwardly (through prayer, solitude, and silence) and outwardly (through community rituals and acts of justice). About Faith Practices Based on essential practices of faith—such as keeping sabbath and working for justice—Faith Practices is a versatile curriculum designed to revolutionize the way congregations equip their people for lives of faith. Faith Practices has a non-linear, activities-based approach that can be used for a range of age groups and church settings: A congregation might use Faith Practices to explore a spiritual practice across its whole life (for example, studying scripture in its adult discussion group, its worship services, and its multiage Sunday school program) ...  A church might choose to focus one of its programs on a variety of spiritual practices (for example, having a confirmation class study 12 spiritual