A. J. Swoboda wrote this: [The Sabbath] has largely been forgotten by the church, which has uncritically mimicked the rhythms of the industrial and success-obsessed West. The result? Our road-weary, exhausted churches have largely failed to integrate Sabbath into their lives as vital elements of Christian discipleship. It is not as though we do not love God—we love God deeply. We just do not know how to sit with God anymore. He continued: We have become perhaps the most emotionally exhausted, psychologically overworked, spiritually malnourished people in history.
