Note on this week's readings

If you have started your daily readings, you might have noticed you are reading lots of Leviticus, and it isn't the easiest read. I suggest you just skim thru the readings. The important thing is that they did the offerings, and what the offerings represent, not the details of the offerings.

Eugene.

Video Segment 7 Summary (Oct 25, 2010 class)

Host: Zan W. Holmes J.
Segment 7: When God Draws Near
Presenter: Bernhard W. Anderson

The acts of sacrifice to God as depicted in Exodus and Leviticus
must be read in the context of the whole Torah. God chooses to draw
near and dwell in the midst of a worshiping people. Our reaction to
God’s drawing near usually is an overwhelming awareness of unworthiness.
Sacrifices express God’s readiness to forgive, to cleanse, to restore.
God provides the means of “at-one-ment” so that a sinful people may be
accepted in the presence of the holy God. Christ’s sacrifice on the cross
fulfills and completes the meaning of the priestly sacrificial system of
the Old Testament. In the Lord’s Supper, or Holy Communion, the Christian
community acts out its conviction that Jesus’ sacrifice offers cleansing
and at-one-ment with God.