Slavery and Freedom
Piecing it All
Together: Slavery and Freedom
Connect
Hopefully your groups are enjoying getting to know one
another and finding a rhythm in meeting together. As your group settles in, discuss this prompt
together:
Describe a time when
you felt the most free.
Pray
Remember to encourage your group in the prayer practices
that you have set up together. Whether
that means you’re praying aloud in the group together, or praying for specific
people through the week. Also, encourage
your group to really answer the measures questions and follow up with them.
Passionate: Where
did I see God today?
Accepting: How am
I building diverse relationships?
Invitational: Who
am I connecting with God’s family?
Trusting: Where
does God rank?
Active: How am I
engaged with God’s work?
Reflect
This week we will be focused on the first half of Exodus,
specifically Israel’s slavery in Egypt and their freedom through the Red Sea. Invite your group to share their thoughts and
insights from this past Sunday’s sermon.
After some reflection, here’s the link to this week’s video from The Bible Project:
Read Exodus 14:21-31 in your groups.
Share this Martin Luther King, Jr. quote from his sermon Death Upon the Seashore:
“This story symbolizes something basic about the universe.
Its meaning is not found in the drowning of a few men, for no one should
rejoice at the death or defeat of a human being. This story, at bottom,
symbolizes the death of evil. It was the death of inhuman oppression and unjust
exploitation.
The death of the Egyptians upon the seashore is a glaring
symbol of the ultimate doom of evil in its struggle with good. There is
something in the very nature of the universe which is on the side of Israel in
its struggle with every Egypt. There is something in the very nature of the
universe which ultimately comes to the aid of goodness in its perennial
struggle with evil.”
Martin Luther King was fond of saying: “the arc of the moral
universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
-Does
it? In light of injustices in the world
today and our capability of destroying one another, is
the arc of the moral universe progressing toward justice?
How do you see hope in Israel’s story of freedom from
slavery?
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