As a church we’re spending time in the Old Testament book Deuteronomy at the moment. Though written thousands of years ago, the book of Deuteronomy is nearly unmatched in its relevance for the affluent Western church of today living in a wealthy, ‘smorgasbord-of-things-to-worship’ world. At its heart, Deuteronomy records the covenantal relationship between God and His people. Perched on the edge of the Promised land Moses words to Israel emphatically point to how in Christ God chooses us so that we can choose Him and so “choose life” (Deut. 30:19).
To aid our ‘listening’ to Deuteronomy in e-news we’re including successive excerpts from an essay Gary Millar has written on Deuteronomy.
Karl
Grace that Demands a Response
The role of the covenant in Deuteronomy
Considerable efforts have been made to identify the genre of the book by comparing it to other extant covenant documents (whether Egyptian, Hittite or Assyrian). Of much more importance than the templates possibly used in the composition of the book is the way in which Moses takes common covenantal ideas and applies them to the unique situation in which Israel finds […]
