Our Bible study has focused in on the narrative of God's rescuing of God's people from Empire. Empire has been defined as our conversation has progressed as the cultures and systems that have embedded the debasing of human dignity and inequity into society. God's movement of rescue is always a form of Exodus.
We have looked at three essential actions by God during an Exodus. 1). God provides God's people with a new identity. 2). God initiates a new kind of relationship with God's people described as a marriage. 3). God calls (invites) the people to embrace a new way to be human, a new way to be alive.
Our discussion has primarily been focused on the implications this three part Exodus has on communities seeking to be God's people. That is the primary function of biblical teaching - forming communities of people.
Yet, this week we are going to zero in on how each individual within an Exodus community has also been invited/called to participate in a personal Exodus, a personal leaving behind of a life below our best expression of God's gifts and entering into a new way of life, a new marriage to God and a new understanding of who we are at our core.
This week, you are invited to review the elements of Exodus we have discovered so far and reflect on how they apply to your personal life. Now.
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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