9:15 AM Adult Forum - Library
Every Sunday, from 04/14/2024 to 04/21/2024, 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Adult Forum:
In-depth Study of the Book of Exodus
Mar 17 and 24 & Apr 14 and 21
Library - 9:15 AM
As a follow-on to Father Totty’s 3 sessions on the Book of Genesis, We will spend our next 4 sessions on an in-depth study of the Book of Exodus. Our next four sessions will be held:
March 17
March 24
April 14
April 21
The Book of Exodus is so long and so pivotal that most of us are familiar with the basics. The children of Israel start out as slaves in Egypt, but the God of Abraham has never left them. Moses leads them out of slavery across the Red Sea. They wander in the desert for forty years before entering Canaan.
Somewhere in there, Moses receives the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai.
But even those basics aren't correct in their details. The children of Israel start Exodus as wealthy and important people. (Their status doesn't last long, but that's how they start.) After they have been slaves for several hundred years, they have no idea who the God of Abraham is -- to the point where God has to literally identify Godself and explain who God is to them. Then Moses (a very reluctant leader) leads the people (very reluctant followers) across the Sea of Reeds (Red Sea) into the wilderness for the second act of the book. The entirety of that second act is devoted to the transformation of people who are unified in their common experience as a subclass of Egyptian slaves into a community of people unified in their devotion to the God of Abraham.
What we think we know about Exodus differs from what is written in the book itself.
Please join us for these four sessions as we benefit from almost 3 hours of video presentation and years of research and study by Vicki Garvey. Ms. Garvey is a respected teacher and author and former Canon for Lifelong Education at the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago. She has led workshops across the United States and internationally on Bible study.
