Leading Question: Have you ever had something asked of you that felt like an insult, a

misunderstanding of who you are and what matters most to you? What was this like for you?

Scripture Focus: Psalm 137, Psalm 22, Psalm 73

The Big Idea: Exile is a thread that runs throughout the biblical text. Exile is event, and exile is a metaphor for the human condition.

For Discussion:

How people understood God’s presence and what they believed about how to access it changed significantly over the centuries in which the biblical literature was written and edited. In Exodus 25:8, the Lord says to Moses, ...