sacked for biblical preaching
October 21st, 2006
“A local pastor was asked to leave a church after advocating that the faithful give their maid a Sunday off as it is a day of restâ€. So wrote a Frances Ong Hock Lin, an educator and mother of six in an article about maids in Singapore which she contributed in the Today freepaper (17 Oct).
Now I can understand if a pastor gets sacked for fraud, adultery, or spreading heresy, but for preaching the uncomfortable truth? This is rare. But then again, John the Baptist lost his head when he preached the truth in love. And so did Jesus. So taking the story as it is, with its limited facts, that pastor deserves our admiration, and that church didn’t deserve a pastor as faithful as he. By the way I do speak about that as well but not devoting a whole sermon to it. (Maybe that’s why I have not been sacked.) I feel if God has compassion on maidservants and animals enough to require the Law of Moses to clearly legislate a rest day on the sabbath for them, we Christians should follow suit. Unless the maid sincerely and for some reason doesn’t want to.
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labour, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.†(Exodus 20:8)
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