the new exodus

Exodus 3 & 12 - 15.02.09
the new exodus

Egypt starts as an empire, but becomes a metaphor:
Egypt is a place where things are more important then people
Egypt is a place where people are treated as machines
Egypt is a place concerned with making a name for itself
Egypt is a place where motivation comes from violence
Egypt is a place where people are stuck in slavery
Egypt is a place where humanity is separated from the God who created them
And Egypt is a place that we all recognize is alive and well today, isn’t it?
Maybe some of us need to leave Egypt?

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What you can't hear:
At the end of the sermon we literally packed up our stuff and performed out own exodus out of the building. We walked as a congregation a few blocks to another church building where we had an elaborate, beautiful 'love-feast'. The love-feast was a seven course meal made by our church's small groups and consisted of eating, laughing, talking, singing, praising, and baptizing! It was a holy and sacred evening!

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Eating, drinking, dancing, laughing, praising, hugging, praying, baptizing...

may i be ripped limb from limb

Gen 12 & 15 - 01.02.09
may i be ripped limb from limb

The church has a difficult calling, the call to be God's hand's and feet, to be His body in the world... what if we fail? Who does the burden fall on? An agreement has been made, a covenant, but who is the God on the other side? That will make all the difference...


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What you can't hear:
Near the end of the sermon, when talking about the covenant ceremony being lay out, I walked down the center aisle, treating it as the aisle Abram made. If you are the imaginative type, you could see a little more clearly what it looked like for Abram to cut these animals in half, aware of what this covenant might cost him. One person later said "I could smell the blood of the animals; hear it sticking to his sandals." Awesome!