Exodus Moments

         For the next five weeks we’ll be gathering in worship around “Exodus Moments.”  Join us around the burning bush, as we learn the deep mystery of the Name of God.  Next we’ll hear the story of the Passover and discover the collective power of remembering across the generations.  We’ll cross the Red Sea with Moses and see the path to liberation laid before us.  We’ll wander in the wilderness, and learn to live on the provisions of God that come in water from a rock and manna from the sky.  Finally, we’ll receive the gift of the 10 Commandments and recommit ourselves to living as different people who seek holiness because the God who liberated us is holy.

      

         The Exodus is the story of the God of creation intervening on behalf of the cries of God’s people.  The God introduced in Genesis—this God of Creation who Covenants with a people—isn’t a God who is stuck in that moment.  God continues to act in the book of Exodus; God continues to act in the lives of the faithful today. 

      

       The wandering wilderness moments of Exodus were a trying time, for the people and for God!  The wilderness is the metaphor for our life today.  We a people with a past better left behind us.  We are a people with a future that is yet to be seen!  We are a people who complain, yes.  We are a people who receive daily bread from a God who provides it.  We drink deeply from the quenching waters of God’s grace. 

 

       Does life feel like a wilderness?  Does it feel like there’s a future for you, yet unseen?  Join us as we explore some of these Exodus moments and see how God may be at work in our lives leading us through liberation with hope for a land that is surely promised.  The Exodus Way is out of enslavement, through transformation, and into the freedom of new life!

 

              Blessings

 

                       Rev. Kenny