Acts of mercy and necessity were lawful, and Christ himself said that the man was not made for the Sabbath, but that the Sabbath was meant to bless man. If it overrode acts of mercy and necessity, it was automatically broken and the Sabbath-keeping becomes useless.
does one derive this stance strictly from applying a regulative principle to torah?
is "the sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath" a restatement of the regulative principle?
if the regulative principle alone does not justify the disciples harvesting wheat on the sabbath, and yet they were justified, then is it reasonable to strictly apply the regulative principle to worship, if it is thus shown to be an insufficient method of interpretation of scripture?
what is the freedom we have been granted in Christ?
is it restrictive, or is it permissive?
it is lawful to do good on the sabbath
what is it to "do good" ?
is "good" defined strictly by a written list of allowable things in scripture?
does our concept of "doing good" flow from a regulative principle?