Simply Christian week 5

Israel

Praise be to the Lord God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.

It is a great exercise to tell the basic story of Israel. Even if you don't want to write it down... tell it to yourself outloud. It's amazing how much you remember (and then how much you don't) and of course, Pastor Dennis made it a little easier for us by his sermon yesterday. What a terrific sermon. Insights that were very interesting to me-That God constantly was rescuing the rescuers and that the people of Israel kept going away and returning.

I want to comment on part of the Table Talk question from the Childrens section. (you guessed it--because I can)

Jesus was an Israelite. As Christians, we would say that Jesus was the greatest leader of the Israelites. ...what makes Jesus different from them?

A comment made by one of my small group members answers the question succinctly ...Jesus was the only rescuer that never needed rescuing!

Have fun wrestling with the assignments this week