Comments on: Missional Order: Three Remembrances for Living in Exile

By: Philip

Philip — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:26:27 +0000

This post about Exiles really pricked at my heart. Hmmm lots to think about.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:08:50 +0000

One caveat of living as an exile is to forget to live in the Truth (and fruition) of the Cross. We aren’t exiles anymore. We don’t just live in a Promise. That Promise has been fulfilled in Christ. There is some “now” in the “now and not yet” of the Kingdom. The Israelites did not have that, though they searched the Scriptures diligently…

Great post though. I grok the exile/homeland/identity imagery.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:51:16 +0000

Thanks for your insight! I’ve spent a lot of time – since Seabeck – reflecting and pondering on what it meant to be in exile yet living in the Land and living with the great Messianic hope. I stumbled into a little of that on my blog. But didn’t mean to! It’s too much and too deep to think out loud, yet. Thanks for offering so much to chew on.

By: sonja

sonja — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:45:13 +0000

I spent a good deal of time last year finding the roots of our faith twined in and amongst the Jewish holidays for my CLB. I think that was one of the richest journeys I ever embarked upon. In doing that I found the stories of exile and how we remind ourselves of who we are, who our parents are, where we're from and where home is. Those feasts and fasts and rituals were all about the reminders and cycles and they are rich in pointing to Messiah. For example, the end of the traditional Seder (Passover) dinner: "With the traditional formula, the seder is concluded, and then we sing L'Shana HaBa'ah B'Y'rushalayim" Next Year in Jerusalem It is those feasts and fasts, rituals and liturgies that help us to remember who we are and where we come from year after year, generation to generation, til that fabled someday, that ever present ... next year in Jerusalem.