Exodus 19:3-7,20:1-17 ; Matthew 5:17-20 Has anyone told you lately that you are a delightful child of God? I’d like you to look at someone near you that did not come to church with you. I realize that eye contact threatens most animals, but humor me. Look at someone and say to each other, “You are a delightful child of God.” Thank you. I wanted to start with that because we are talking about some heavy-handed moral content in the Bible today. Most people that I know tend to either worry that they are being told that they are bad or they suddenly feel superior when I bring up topics with specific moral implications. It’s like racism. Just saying the word and acknowledging that it exists makes some people say, “That’s not me, but I can sure tell you who it is” even though the ‘isms’ in our world are generally not about a person as much as they are about how we behave as people. Sure, they bubble up in the actions of the few, but they are baked into our social systems – which is kind of o...
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