Marking Time: Forming Spirituality through the Christian Year

Ses s i on 4: God’ s T imep i ece and God’ s Te l os 97

his name dwell there. [3] You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction – for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste – that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt. b. Exod. 23.15 (ESV) – You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. None shall appear before me empty-handed .

D. The Christian faith links spirituality to history, remembrance, and participation in the person of Jesus Christ.

1. The principle of history, community, and story is picked up, amplified, and completed in the story of Jesus Christ!

a. History : John 20.30-31 (ESV) – Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; [31] but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. b. Community : 1 Pet. 2.9-10 (ESV) – But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excel lencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. [10] Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

c. Story : Luke 1.1-4 (ESV) – Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, [2] just as those