That's What She Said

Extension of the Church’s Welcome to Friends, Neighbors, Strangers, and Enemies. The leper couldn’t help himself: Jesus said “Shhh” but he told everybody.

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Easter service at Galileo Church 2024.

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The Scattering. In a sense, the creation-of-the-world story isn’t over until chapter 11. Throughout, God has been observing, evaluating, demolishing, renovating... and now God is redecorating, scattering and spreading the human family. That spread was God’s intention all along – that the human family would “fill the earth.” It’s our tendency to clump together in silos of sameness, but God is here hopeful that we’ll find beauty in diversity.

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“I will never again.” God makes a decision: wipe it out, start over. But then God decides differently: “I’ll never do that again.” How do we wrestle with a God who learns as God goes?

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East of Eden. The enmity between human beings is the immediate symptom and consequence of the brokenness. In the world “east of Eden” – which is the world we all live in now – competition for scarce resources feels real.

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Truth and consequences. Even the ground is broken now – yielding thorns instead of food. God names the consequences for the humans’ impudence, and also clothes them compassionately.

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They knew that they were naked. The originary humans come of age, their naivete spoiled. Let’s talk about whether that’s the ruination of humanity, or the completion of our “image-of-God- ness.”

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Naked and Unashamed. We probably can’t talk enough about the loving care that God has for our bodies, especially because the counter-testimony (your body is wrong, dangerous, untrustworthy, problematic) is so strong. We remember that one of the first signs of the humans’ brokenness in chp. 3 is their strong desire to cover up. Genesis 2 calls us back to an exalted state of “body positivity” – though there ought to be a better way to say that.

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Tilling & Keeping this Blessed Rock. When we think of “relationships” we’re usually speaking of people or Persons – relationships with family or friends, or perhaps with God. Maybe, for some of us, there’s a sense of “relationship” with an animal companion, but we sense that it’s not entirely mutual. (Fight me.) But what is the nature of the relationship that God designates for human beings with the planet God built us out of? “Tilling” and “keeping” (and “dominion,” from chp. 1) are words that deserve our attention, especially in this age of eco-anxiety after a long era of eco-domination.

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Rest Finishes the Work. Fundamentalists speak of a “six-day creation” – but that misses the work of the seventh day, which is rest. What if no job is really complete until there’s been time to rest from it? To let it sink into our tired bones, for us to process the work with our loved ones or in our dreams, to get some distance from the work and let it become meaningful... Being in the image of God as we are, rest is one of the ways we can be godly.

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