Christ Community - Downtown Campus
Exodus: Yahweh Rescues - August 3 | Downtown
Case Law - 9:00,10:45 AM & ON-DEMAND
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Christ Community - Downtown Campus
208 W 19th St, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
Sunday 7:00 AM
Title: Case Law
Reference: Exodus 21:1-11
Speaker: Gabe Coyle, GabeC@cckc.church
Reference: Exodus 21:1-11
Speaker: Gabe Coyle, GabeC@cckc.church
In a shattered world, Yahweh's instructions reveal his loving character.
– The ever-changing nature of culture
In Israel's patrilineal society, children always belonged to their father's tribe, but when a female child came of age she was married into another [house of a father]. She became a permanent member of that new household, and her tribal alliance shifted with that marriage. As a result, a woman's identity in Israel—and her link to its economy and civil structures—was always tracked through the men in her life. She was first her father's daughter, then her husband's wife and then her son's mother. The resources and protection of the clan came to her through the male members of her family. This is why it was critical for a woman to marry and to bear children… And a woman without father, husband or son was destitute; without the charity of strangers, she would starve. ~ Sandra Richter, The Epic of Eden: A Christian Entry into the Old Testament
Even if Christianity did not overthrow slavery immediately … Paul’s injunction to treat slaves rightly and fairly would soon be understood as a command to abolish the institution of slavery entirely. ~ Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
– Yahweh’s unchanging character
Wendell Berry has taught me that even the most complex situations, socially, economically, politically, are like marriage, and I’m sure that he is right. Most moments in our marriage reflect the deeper, harder truth that we each are implicated in the problem, and that we each have something important to say about its resolution.
The only way forward is to make peace with proximate justice. It is a choice to make peace with something, something that is honest and true, something that is more just and more merciful, even if it is not everything. All-or-nothing never works–in marriages, in friendships, in the workplace, in the church. And it never works in politics. ~ Steven Garber, Proximate Justice, Again and Again
The only way forward is to make peace with proximate justice. It is a choice to make peace with something, something that is honest and true, something that is more just and more merciful, even if it is not everything. All-or-nothing never works–in marriages, in friendships, in the workplace, in the church. And it never works in politics. ~ Steven Garber, Proximate Justice, Again and Again
– Timeless wisdom for our lives
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