discipleship sermon one
Before First Reading : Today we begin our journey through the important moments in God's story as a part of our discipleship series. Now until October, each Saturday/Sunday we will hear an important story in the history of God's disciples throughout the ages. It is important for us to be familiar with these moments so that we can find ourselves within these stories of God, so that God's larger story can help us make sense of our part of the story we live out today, so that we can be shaped into God's disciples... The first story, the story to begin our discipleship journey is not creation, but Exodus, liberation... Through Abraham, God had begun to form a people set apart. This tribe of Abraham's descendent's, the Israelites, had come to Egypt. For a while things were fine in Egypt. Eventually, though, the Egyptians, led by the Pharaoh, decided the Israelites were becoming too numerous. The Egyptians decided to make the Israelites slave...