Actually that is only a half-truth. The real Christian goes the extra mile to enter INTO Christ.
The true sabbath is to rest from the dead works of our own thoughts and ideas ...and opinions. We are to draw life from above....not from our own humanity. THAT is a true follower of Christ who can say...I ONLY do what I see my Father doing.
I don't know how my thought will translate, because I don't know how many people were raised this way but...
A big part of the true Sabbath rest for me has been to forsake the useless way of life/ conversation I learned from my parents.
It wasn't always extremely overtly but I was taught that the way to do things was to do them in such a way that the unacceptable thing you were doing became "acceptable."
It was like...get even, but do it in a way society approves of, so you can't be caught. You can say: no one has caught me cheating.
It's passive-aggression, and I used to think it was only my family but I see it everywhere.
So we were taught to attack in a way that wasn't overt but was rather "mannered."
It's like Adam and eve, covering up what you're doing, hiding what you've done. And as long as the person you're "getting" can't prove your motives, its okay.
And here's the icing on the cake - you make sure there are witnesses when the person goes ballistic with anger over what you've done. That way, you look like an angel being attacked by an emotionally unhinged idiot.
So the person having a fit is more open and honest than you have been, yet the more open and honest person looks like the bad one. They usually can't even articulate what you did to them because you obfuscated everything so much. Heck, they sometimes don't even know what they did or said that got you fuming inside. It could be something they said weeks ago that they don't even remember.
It's the useless conversation we learned from our parents and society. And it ties in to what you said here about keeping the law outwardly, whitewashing the tomb so men approve of you.