Exodus 12:21–28
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that despises liturgy, ritual, and anything that smells of commanded repetition. Modern evangelicalism, in its flight from formalism, has often landed in the barren fields of formlessness. We want a faith that is spontaneous, authentic, and above all, personal, which usually means a faith that is custom-built by me, for me. We think of worship as something we generate from within, a feeling we work up, a sincerity we manufacture. But God's pedagogy, His method of teaching His people who He is and what He has done, is entirely different. God does not just give us abstract propositions to believe; He gives us rituals to perform. We are creatures of flesh and blood, and so He condescends to teach us through our senses. He gives us a story we can see, smell, touch, and taste.