![]() ![]() You can skip to the end and leave a response. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Initially, joining a new church can be quite. Tagged: Abrahamic Promise, Church, Covenant, Creation, Exodus, Exodus 19:3-8, Exodus 6:3-8, Genesis 12:1-3, Israel, Promise, Sinai. You dont have to be a New Christian, but 180 is the starting point in our personal development programme. Sara was born in Nigeria and brought up in Northamptonshire before coming to Cambridge as a student and new Christian in 1983. Novemat 8:37 pm and is filed under Biblical Texts, Theodrama. While Babel wanted to make a name for itself, God decided to make a name for Abraham. New Eden Gardens brings together individuals, families, and organizations in a mission to model an environmentally and ethically sustainable Community. How will God respond, and when will he raise up. Babel was not the end but the beginning of a new trajectory. King David sets up a new Eden in Jerusalem, but the people continue to set up false Edens in high places. With Abraham, God is starting over and investing in Israel the same vocation that was given to humanity in the beginning. God commissioned Israel, just as he had commissioned humanity in the beginning, with a royal and priestly vocation, that is, to be light to the nations and the means of their redemption. The land of Israel became a new Garden of Eden for the sake of blessing all the nations of the earth. Israel is God’s new humanity for the sake of all humanity. Just as God wanted humanity to fill the whole earth, so God would bless all nations through Israel. Just as God dwelt in the Garden with Adam and Eve, so God would dwell with Israel. Just as God placed them in a Garden, so God would place Israel in a land. Just as God blessed male and female to multiply, so Israel would multiply. What God intended in the creation of Adam and Eve, God now intends in the creation of Israel. Today, on Easter Sunday, Sharon McCoy will lift her voice in song for the first time in years and fill New Eden Church with a promise of hope and love. Subscribe My website Home Videos Shorts Playlists Community Channels About Videos Play all. God, we might say, rebooted the divine mission. New Eden Church exists to make disciples who worship, abide in, and reflect King Jesus in all of life. God called Abraham as the ancestor of a people who would multiply and fill the land God would give them, and in this land, they would become a light to the nations. ![]() Who is Israel, and what is her purpose? It is a new humanity in a new Eden to continue and further the mission of God in the world.įollowing the collapse of the world into violent imperialism and God’s intervention that scattered humanity across the face of the earth, God decided to create a people as God’s own people from among the nations for the sake of the nations. ![]()
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