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The Rest of Life: Rest, Play, Eating, Studying, Sex from a Kingdom Perspective is unavailable, but you can change that!

When was the last time you heard a sermon on the theological importance of play? What do rest, eating, studying—and sex—have to do with the kingdom of God? Strangely, although these activities together take up much of our time, they seldom receive much discussion from a biblical point of view. In The Rest of Life Ben Witherington explores these subjects in the light of biblical teaching about the...

of his people (2 Sam. 6:5–23). Making merry before the Lord is affirmed in the Bible. What we can say, then, is that certain forms of play are mentioned in the Bible and affirmed, and when one couples that sort of material with passages about celebrating weddings, feasting, rejoicing at various things that are not work and not rest, it becomes clear that the Bible provides both some evidence and also the ethos and rationale for play. What we have stressed in this chapter is that having a Kingdom
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