Religion & Spirituality
Theme of Alienation … the fall brings alienation (The following list of alienations from the fall are from Professor Jerram Barrs, Covenant Seminary - all errors mine) God & us Us & God From ourselves From each other Loss of Dominion (from our role) Body & Spirit From creation How that impacts loving our neighbor … Biblical theme of being called out of comfort and into a journey, because our home is elsewhere and our citizenship is elsewhere … all throughout the Bible - Abram / Jacob / Joseph / David / Israel itself / Jesus has nowhere to lay his head / Paul / Apostles … us Now the Lord said[a] to Abram, “Go from your country[b] and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”[c] 4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, 6 Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak[d] of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. 7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. 8 From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord. 9 And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.(Genesis 12:1-9) This seems like a part of God’s plan - why? Can we do this without a physical relocation? What other kinds of relocations are possible? Is this a necessary part of following? What makes this movement “successful”? What gets in the way of making this movement “successful”? How does this conflict with our expectations? How can the idea of living “successfully” instead of “faithfully” be part of the problem? The story of praying for a neighbor and they move away and you pray sometimes for them if you remember … and that is the end of the story … (no bow to put on it) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/roguetabletalks/message