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 PrintableVersion On the first day of the weekA weekly day of restON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK If you want a contemporary restatement of the Lord’s Day Observance Society’s position on the Christian Sabbath, a Day One publication by a Free Church of Scotland minister is unlikely to disappoint. A solid, workmanlike survey of biblical material, backed up with a selection of Puritan teaching offers a fine foundation for contemporary application. If your conviction is that while ceremonial and judicial/civil aspects of the Old Testament Law have been abolished through the work of Christ, but that the moral law (and especially the Ten Commandments) still applies, you will appreciate the particular continuity/discontinuity balance represented here. However, if you see the whole law fulfilled in Christ, with the glories of the gospel lighting up every Old Testament shadow so that all Scripture may guide our paths in the footsteps of the Master, you may wonder if this is the best book to persuade those who are missing out on God’s gracious provision of a weekly day of rest, to celebrate God’s goodness and sanctify the whole week. Certainly, if you are looking for a book that engages with other literature on this important subject, or if you have different convictions on the application of the Sabbath principle, you may feel you are being given short shrift. Dr. Campbell steers well clear of legalistic judgmentalism, but leaves the impression that he has perhaps not really appreciated even other Reformed views. Alistair Hornal, © Evangelicals Now - January 2006 |
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