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Thom Stark

Chapter 6 - Conquest

28/03/15 15:58 Filed in: Conquest

In chapter 5. God’s people, formerly powerless slaves, became a kingdom of priests in the desert. Now in chapter 6, Israel finally entered the Promised Land, the land of Canaan. And so begins one of the hardest to understand parts of the Bible In the story of the conquest of Canaan, we read how God seemingly orders wholesale slaughter. What do we do when God acts more like a tribal warlord than the God of unending love? “What are we supposed to do with a Bible like this? What are we supposed to do with a God like this?”
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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 6 - Conquest

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The Story of God, the Story of Us.