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The People of God: The Story of the Church

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As the Israelites escape Egypt, a meal is celebrated. This meal, called Passover, was to commemorate how God ‘passed over’ the houses with the blood of a lamb on the doors. The people were to celebrate this meal each year and use it to remember how they fled in haste, protected by God. It was a way of passing onto their children what it meant to be a community that represented God. Little did they know that this would also point forward prophetically to when Jesus would become the ultimate Passover lamb to take away the sins of the whole world.

The church, as we gather around Communion each week, stands in this great Passover tradition as we remember the great exodus from sin and death itself. By initiating the Lord’s Supper on Passover, Jesus was not replacing Passover but bringing it into its ultimate culmination. Receiving communion is a celebration of Jesus’ death and resurrection but also follows in the incredible Passover tradition. Of course, Jews, and even some Christians, still celebrate Passover to commemorate the Exodus event and the beginnings of the nation of Israel.

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The People of God: The Story of the Church

What is the story of the church? This plan is a month-long journey through the Bible, looking at how God uses people, situations, and symbols to bring about communion between God and humanity once again. It follows the story of Israel and then the early church, highlighting the church's hope for resurrection and new creation and our role as agents of that new creation.

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