Overview: Rules, Restrictions & Guidelines

The concept is simple, honor the 4th Commandment. The application is the hard part.

It was recently pointed to me that I wasn't keeping the 4th Commandment, and so might turn away new Christians who were looking to me as an example. I therefore decided to embark on Project Sabbath. It entails stripping pretty much everything in my life, between Friday night and Saturday night sundowns, and devoting myself to pursuing God. Basically, I'm following Leviticus 16:31a when it says, "It is a Sabbath of rest, and you must deny yourselves"(NIV)

Since goals and time limits are important in a project like this, at least for me, I am proposing to keep Project Sabbath going until the Sabbath before my birthday (Sat, April 17, 2010). At that time I will decide whether or not to amend the Rules/Restrictions/Guidelines or abandon the project all together.

Here are the Rules/Restrictions/Guidelines that I will be adhering to on Sabbaths:

No Working (schoolwork, yardwork, etc.)

No Buying/Selling

No Internet

No Television

No Movies

No Games (board games, phone Tetris, etc.)

No Radio

No Secular Books

No Eating

No Drinking (except for water)

No Extended Traveling

No Strenuous Activity

No Miscellaneous Activities that take my attention away from God/the Bible/helping people

When in doubt about a particular activity, I'll avoid doing it.

what I can do is:

Read my Bible

Pray

Go to Church

Talk with People

Help people

Think about/contemplate God

Journal (on paper)

Rest

I am counting on you, my friends and blog-followers to hold me accountable while I embark on Project Sabbath.

Note:

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the 10 Commandments, specifically #4, you can find them here:

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+20&version=NIV

or

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%205&version=NIV