Woah
Wow it's been almost a year since I wrote anything here, so probably no one reads here anymore anyway, ah well, c'est la vie. Just shows how long I have been out of internet access :) and that we have now allowed Porn (our flat nickname for Internet) into the flat.
Anyway in spite of feeling like shit or I mean @#$% these are some thoughts that I had recently.
I've been working my way through Exodus, chiefly because Jurgen Moltmann in A Theology of Hope talks about the Exodus church. A tenuous link I know but you gotta start somewhere right?
Anyway it intrigued me that at the beginning of Exodus God calls Moses to lead his people out from Egypt, the land of slavery and tyranny. However, before Moses can lead the people out, he is first sent back in. Back in to Egypt, into the land of slavery, into the land of tyranny. He goes in to both call the people out, showing them a bigger dream of the land of milk and honey, and to challenge the powers and principalities that hold them captive. As a prophet he shows people a better world and challenges power with miracles and the power of God. This is the call to the church. To be a prophetic people called out and so going deeper in. To call others out and to challenge the powers and the principalities that hold people captive.
Anyway in spite of feeling like shit or I mean @#$% these are some thoughts that I had recently.
I've been working my way through Exodus, chiefly because Jurgen Moltmann in A Theology of Hope talks about the Exodus church. A tenuous link I know but you gotta start somewhere right?
Anyway it intrigued me that at the beginning of Exodus God calls Moses to lead his people out from Egypt, the land of slavery and tyranny. However, before Moses can lead the people out, he is first sent back in. Back in to Egypt, into the land of slavery, into the land of tyranny. He goes in to both call the people out, showing them a bigger dream of the land of milk and honey, and to challenge the powers and principalities that hold them captive. As a prophet he shows people a better world and challenges power with miracles and the power of God. This is the call to the church. To be a prophetic people called out and so going deeper in. To call others out and to challenge the powers and the principalities that hold people captive.
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