Mosaic Church - Evans, GA

From Carolyn Moore: "It is always a joy to be home! And even better when I get the opportunity to open the Word with our whole community! I am looking forward to being with you this Sunday — to share stories from the field, to continue our exploration of Exodus, and to worship together our good, good God."

Last week, we looked at how God's law calls us to do no harm. This week, we'll look at how it calls us to do good and how doing good is not only part of the answer to the madness in our world. It's also an answer to fostering God's kingdom in our souls.

When you look into the laws of God, they can be a bit disorienting because of the divide between time and culture. But when you look more deeply, you begin to see God calling on people who are more focused on reconciliation than simply retribution, more focused on the good of the whole than the good of just my personal stuff. What a refreshing word this can be for us as a community!

God called his people to consecrate themselves to meet with him on the mountain. But it wasn't a burdensome thing. It was because he wanted to make them his treasured possession, his treasured people, that would reveal the treasure of his heart to the world. Friends, I think God is calling us into a similar place.

Friends, we have a true blessing this weekend. As you know, we have been in partnership with UGA Wesley for many, many years. UGA Wesley is the largest Wesley foundation in America. And now this Sunday, Rev. Bob Beckwith, a long time director of UGA Wesley, will be speaking to us at our GIC.

What is it? That is the question! The Israelites walk through the wilderness. They see these flakes of bread, and they ask, what is it? Which asks us to consider what God's provision will look like? And how does the belief that God does provide free us up to live into the mission of God?

Crossing the Red Sea was actually a baptism. It was a baptism that took the Israelites from fear to trust, from slavery to freedom. Find out how we also enter into that baptism as followers of Jesus.