God’s promis e to bless Abraham also includes a promise that al l the earth’s families will be blessed through him . In the Bible’s epic story of the chosen people\, foreigners repeatedly appear and play crucial rol es. Moses would have been killed if not rescued by the daughter of Pharaoh. The Israelite spies woul d never have survived without the help of Rahab th e prostitute in Jericho. David’s family line would have died out had it not been for Ruth the Moabit e. Jesus heals foreigners\, enters Gentile territo ry\, and finally commissions his disciples to go i nto the world with the gospel’s good news. The ten sion between God’s special relationship with the d escendants of Abraham and God’s love for all the w orld’s people runs through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.
\n \nThis inclusive vision runs counter to the Christian nationalist agenda of ethnic division. Christian nationalism c laims to have biblical support\, but this book lay s bare that claim by a close reading of the Bible. Paul says that in Christ\, there is no longer Jew or Greek. Revelation imagines people from every t ribe and nation worshiping around the throne of th e Lamb. The final biblical vision is a new\, unifi ed humanity.
\n \nNote: Author St
even Kurtz will be joining us. He has provided a
study guide here: (copy this url and paste into yo
u browser)
\n https://www.allthefamiliesofthe
earth.net/general-clean
The Book Club meets at 7:30 Eastern\, 6:30 Central\, 5:30 M ountain and 4:30 Pacific time on the last Thursday of the month (September 24th). The book was chose n by Dr. Lincoln Baxter\, who will lead the discus sion.
\n \nClick on the following address t o join the meeting via Zoom: http://tinyurl.com/naua-boo k-club
DESCRIPTION:\n \n \n \n God’s promise to bless Abraham also in cludes a promise that all the earth’s families wil l be blessed through him. In the Bible’s epic stor y of the chosen people\, foreigners repeatedly app ear and play crucial roles. Moses would have been killed if not rescued by the daughter of Pharaoh. The Israelite spies would never have survived with out the help of Rahab the prostitute in Jericho. D avid’s family line would have died out had it not been for Ruth the Moabite. Jesus heals foreigners\ , enters Gentile territory\, and finally commissio ns his disciples to go into the world with the gos pel’s good news. The tension between God’s special relationship with the descendants of Abraham and God’s love for all the world’s people runs through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.\n \n \n \n This inclusive vision runs counter to the Christia n nationalist agenda of ethnic division. Christian nationalism claims to have biblical support\, but this book lays bare that claim by a close reading of the Bible. Paul says that in Christ\, there is no longer Jew or Greek. Revelation imagines peopl e from every tribe and nation worshiping around th e throne of the Lamb. The final biblical vision is a new\, unified humanity.\n \n \n \n Note: Autho r Steven Kurtz will be joining us. He has provide d a study guide here: (copy this url and paste int o you browser)\n \n https://www.allthefamiliesofth eearth.net/general-clean\n \n \n \n The Book Club meets at 7:30 Eastern\, 6:30 Central\, 5:30 Mounta in and 4:30 Pacific time on the last Thursday of t he month (September 24th). The book was chosen by Dr. Lincoln Baxter\, who will lead the discussion. \n \n \n \n Click on the following address to join the meeting via Zoom: http://tinyurl.com/naua-boo k-club (http://tinyurl.com/naua-book-club)\n \n CATEGORIES:NAUA Book Club CALSCALE:GREGORIAN DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260924T163000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260924T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260924T183000 URL:https://naunitarians.org/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=429 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR