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Chapter 7 - Crown

06/04/15 16:00 Filed in: Crown

In chapter 6, we heard the story of the conquest of the land of Canaan and dealt with the difficult questions of God who seems to act like a tribal warlord. In chapter 7, the Israelites were still plagued by Canaanites who were left in the land, and many foreign gods were among them. They were a loose network of individual tribes, barely holding their own in the time of the judges. The people wanted a king like the nations around them had. The story became a cautionary tale, warning of the dangers of the affluence, oppression and state religion that marked Solomon’s reign. blogEntryTopper

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Watershed Community is going through Sean Gladding's book The Story of God, the Story of Us. We read a chapter each week and pull out some questions from the book to facilitate discussion. Start at the beginning or read the current entry.

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The Story of God, the Story of Us.

Sean Gladding takes us between the lines of Scripture to listen in on the conversation of people wrestling with the Story we have received. Sitting around a campfire in Babylon, reclining at table in Asia Minor, huddled together by candlelight in Rome, we meet people encountering the Story for the first and for the hundred-and-first time. With them we hear a tale that is at once both familiar and surprising.

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Chapter 7 - Crown

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The Story of God, the Story of Us.