Texas Pastor Robert Morris: The Importance of Taking a Day Off

Tré Goins-Phillips : Nov 18, 2019
Faithwire.com

"That was when I started going to the Lord and the Lord started showing me the principle of resting one day a week, and what to do, and what not to do, and how to actually rest..." -Pastor Robert Morris

[Faithwire.com] The four-day workweek has gotten a lot of airtime recently, and maybe for good reason: when a Microsoft subsidiary gave it a shot over the summer, productivity spiked 40 percent. Now one Texas pastor is encouraging everyone to prioritize taking a little time off to rest. (Image: Pixabay)

Robert Morris, founding senior pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, near Fort Worth, even argues in his new book, "Take the Day Off," that not taking a day of rest—a Sabbath—is a form of sin.

The 58-year-old preacher told Faithwire he realized he needed to reprioritize rest when, several years ago, he endured what he now jokingly calls "the great underwear crisis of 2004." He had just returned home from an overseas trip when he opened his underwear draw to find a single pair of clean underwear. Moments later, he pulled open his sock drawer and discovered he had no washed socks. Looking back, Morris sees now how silly his so-called "crisis" was, but at the time, it left him distraught and even in tears.

Morris, overtired, overworked, and overextended, was having a breakdown.

"That was when I started going to the Lord and the Lord started showing me the principle of resting one day a week, and what to do, and what not to do, and how to actually rest," he recalled, something that came into focus for Morris as he read the 10 Commandments "over and over again"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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