Exodus: It Would Have Been Enough 9/9

Ten Words. Posting the 10 Commandments in every Texas public school classroom is a bad idea… But remembering what they are, how practically the high concept of “love God, love your neighbor” can be rendered, is a good idea.

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Exodus: It Would Have Been Enough 8/9

You Can’t Always Get What You Want, But If You Try Sometimes... Pastoral leaders love the stories about Moses’ burnout, his frustration with the people, the good advice that he get some help and learn to delegate. Being in partnership with God is a limit experience – meaning, we’re pushed, sometimes, just beyond the edges of our capacity – and this is where God meets us. (And – what would it look like to be one of the “able men among all the people” (v. 21)? Ready for responsibility, waiting to be asked?)

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Exodus: It Would Have Been Enough 7/9

Bread of Heaven. Here is Israel’s experiential learning about God’s economy. It stands in stark contrast to Pharaoh’s economy, where you work your fingers to the bone (what do you get? bony fingers!) and can barely sustain yourself. In God’s gracious economy, there is enough for every day plus more so that rest is built in. This is the “bread of heaven” vs. the “bread of capitalism,” in our context.

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Exodus: It Would Have Been Enough 6/9

Singing Our Lives. A service of song and Dayenu stories to mark our arrival at the point in the Exodus story where the Israelites stop and sing after finally escaping the pursuing Egyptian army.

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Exodus: It Would Have Been Enough 5/9

Loins Girded, Shoes On. The first “Pass-Over” meal calls for the people’s readiness. When God is about to do something, what does it mean for us to be ready, alert, dressed, and available?

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Exodus: It Would Have Been Enough 4/9

A Name, a Plan, a Partnership. God announces GodSelf in the burning bush, and announces an ambitious plan to liberate Israel with Moses as God’s agent. Moses argues. God negotiates. “This is Who I Am,” God says, in word and in (promised) action. And who God is – is in partnership with Moses. Dr. Barber has said, “God will not do what we can do; that is not what God is for.”

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Exodus: It Would Have Been Enough 2/9

Pharaoh Should’ve Feared the Women. He was afraid of the baby boys who would one day be men, because he only knew to fear violence. The six women of the story (midwives, mother, sister, princess, maid) exercise a subversive power and set the stage for God’s redemption.  

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Exodus: It Would Have Been Enough 1/9

The Red Sea Rescue/Catastrophe. We’ll start with the event that is the hinge of the narrative: the drowning of the Egyptian army in the Red Sea. On one side of the sea, the Israelites are fugitive-slaves; on the other side, they are liberated, and learning how to live in freedom. 

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Astounded 9/9

His authority doesn’t look like you think it should.

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Astounded 8/9

Again, with religious law – didn’t we just do that? Why so soon again?

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Astounded 7/9

Jesus gives lots of chances, until he doesn’t.

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Astounded 6/9

Jesus gives lots of chances, until he doesn’t.

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Astounded 5/9

Jesus and religious law.

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Astounded 4/9

Jesus and sinners. 

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Astounded 3/9

Jesus can free you from whatever binds you – and that’s fucking terrifying. This liberating power he has is nothing to sneeze at, and why does it make them beg him to leave? Maybe because free people are scarier to the status quo than when they were bound?

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Astounded 2/9

Jesus isn’t “nice.” Jesus has an unnerving sense of self that does not require him to seek favor even from those who are his friends and followers. His mission is clear; he’s rather short with anybody who doesn’t get it.

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Astounded 1/9

Junia’s dedication. Jesus’s authority is exercised in compassion for centurions (Roman soldiers! gasp!), slaves (not “servants” as the translations have it), and mother-in-laws. These people don’t really “count” in the economy of religious privilege, but they matter very much to him.

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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow 8/8

Galileo Next Year. Remi is preaching.

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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow 7/8

Happy birthday to us! Katie is preaching. Remi’s ordination. Co-Conspiracy.

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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow 6/8

Galileo in the Vashti Years. Katie is preaching. At some point Queen Vashti said to King What’s- His-Name, “Nope.” She didn’t want to dance for him and his friends anymore, even if it meant exile. She wasn’t afraid, and she wasn’t ingratiated, and she wasn’t waiting for his approval.

What if one of the church’s goals is to get everybody into their Vashti years, so that we each and all together are liberated from caring what anybody other than God thinks of us?

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