Should Christians Keep the Sabbath?

Roughly 2.18 billion people around the world profess to be a Christian. No matter what their denomination might be, most of them value the Ten Commandments to some degree. In fact, in America, whenever some organization like the ACLU threatens to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments from public property, you can expect Christians to gather by the hundreds to protest. Yet the majority of those same Christians don’t consider the fourth commandment—the Sabbath—to be particularly important or relevant for today.

Why do you suppose the majority of today’s Christians don’t keep the Sabbath the way the Bible says to keep it? Does God care about whether we keep it? Was it given only to a specific group of people before the time of Christ? Was the Sabbath changed or taken to a “spiritual” level, replacing the literal application of the commandment? This article will take a closer look at this important topic. We’ll discover what the Bible—our final authority on all matters of faith and practice—truly says about the Sabbath and how it applies to us today ... READ MORE