Articles : June 29, 2009
Sunday School by Grimsrud
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Reliving liberation
The events of the exodus overshadow everything that follows in the Bible. Here is where God intervened to bring salvation to God’s people, establishing the character of God as savior and the pattern of God’s work throughout history. Crucially, the Bible insists that God’s act to bring life to slaves actually happened. It was not only a metaphor or dream.
The power of this concreteness lies in anchoring God’s healing work in real human life. In actual liberating events, we see the consequences of the exodus rippling down through the ages. The downside of the historical nature of this story is that it can too easily fade from memory.
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