Podcast: 2025-10-26: Pastor Mark Quist – Discipleship: In the beginning, VERY GOOD – God rested SHALOM!
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2025-10-26: Pastor Mark Quist – Discipleship: In the beginning, VERY GOOD – God rested SHALOM!
What’s so special about the 7th day of the week (Sunday)? Or is it the 1st day of the week (Sunday?) How do you see it?
In Scripture, God sees the 7th day as an unbelievable day of joy, rest, play, and beauty! The Sabbath Day is closely associated with another Hebrew work ‘SHALOM.’ Shalom is a powerful and profound word, communicating wholeness, completeness, well-being, things as they are supposed to be. On the 7th day, after creating, separating, giving form and shape, purpose and meaning to all living things, to humanity, he says “SHABOT!” Stop! Rejoice and rest, everything is very good.
Yet, we all know that everything is not very good. So what happened… well, that’s for us to take a closer look at after this Sunday… so for this Sunday, we will enter into the very good of God’s creation ‘in the beginning.’
Here’s what I’d like you to do in preparation for Sunday. Answer this question, and feel free to answer it as many times and in as many ways as you can think of… write em down – bring them to church. Simply complete this thought: “If things were the way they were supposed to be, it would look like _________.” Fill in the blank with a word or a phrase or an idea. Think of what you see as ‘not right, not the way it’s supposed to be’ and answer it in the positive, as it should be.
Read Genesis 2:1-3. See you Sunday!
Pastor Mark
United States
