Regular gathering on 2 Dec, something else on 9 Dec
Normal Gathering on the 16th?
Today is all-saints day (the day/Sunday after Halloween)
Speaker Sylvia Keesmaat
The law and the Kingdom: was Jesus joking?
Matthew 5:17-20
I’ll talk about the law! How thrilling...
I have not come to abolish. The law and the prophets.
- the whole story of who Israel was. The law embedded in that story.
It’s purpose is to shape us into a certain community and what that looks like as followers of Jesus
An idea of what the kingdom looks like on earth
The sabbath laws.
-traditions of not using money on a Sunday
The purpose of that in the sabbath is that it gives everyone a rest from labour and economic transactions
Historical Israel and obeying laws
Leaving for the widow the orphan and the poor, the refugee the immigrant and the alien
You don’t squeeze everything you can from your land
Leaving for nature as well.
Deuteronomy 22, don’t just leave your neighbours ox out. Build a parapet around your roof, don’t let people fall off the roof
Don’t wear clothes with wool and linen, it will fall apart know the limits of creation
Tassels on the prayer cloak
They are all about the health of community, about the vulnerable
Given the world/culture in which we find ourselves, what kind of laws would create a community that demonstrates hope and _______ for the vulnerable.
Supper and discussion time
That’s all for now.
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