MWR posted the fifth in a 13 week series of columns I'm writing that correspond with scripture used in an international Sunday school lesson plan for NCCC member denominations. “Community in Jesus” shifts the focus on the story of our redemption and its connection to God's covenant community in the Old Testament to the NT, with a look at Jesus and his invitations to the kingdom and the kind of covenant community God’s had in mind all along. As I've said before, I'm really enjoying this series and what I'm learning about what it means to be God's people and who he's called and enabled us to be.
So Paul took his stand in the open space at the Areopagus and laid it out for them: "I'm here to introduce you to this God.... He doesn't play hide-and-seek with us. He's not remote; he's near. We live and move in him, can't get away from him!" ~Acts 17