The Lord’s Day was a big thing as I grew up in church in North East Scotland. It was the day we did nothing except go to church. We didn’t:
- Watch TV
- go shopping (even if you could find one open)
- go out to play
- play golf (in fact the golf course was closed even to non Christian’s )
- do housework
- put our washing out
- go to work (the trawlers didn’t leave the harbour till the ‘back o Sunday’ - a second past midnight.
Sunday equalled ‘don’t’ when it should have meant delight!
Check out this quote from Dan Allender from his book Sabbath.