Week Two

The Passover

In week two we ask could the story of the Passover be a metaphor that seeks to engage with much of the present injustice and enslavement of people we see today? Many seeking to find both physical and spiritual deliverance from a world of entrapment and inequality. Is the Exodus story being relived in the lives of people in our generation taking to boats fleeing from oppression and tyranny; while others take to alcohol and drugs, seeking to find redemption.

This week we focus our attention on three passages of scripture that invite us firstly: to consider our personal and spiritual entrapment. Secondly: to understand the significance of Jesus as our saviour, our Passover sacrifice. Thirdly: to understand we are called to use the institution of the Lord’s Supper as a fellowship meal of thanksgiving for the old life from which we have been delivered and the new life we have received in Christ.

SEEDS TO SOW: WHAT DO YOU THINK JESUS’S FIRST DISCIPLES WOULD MAKE OF OUR COMMUNIONS TODAY? *

Read Exodus 12: 1-14

It’s a grizzly tale of sabotage, injustice, fear, and redemption. Is it a tale we recognise in the 21st century?

Discuss its physical and spiritual relevance for our generation.

Read Mark 10: 35-45

Here in this passage Jesus is no longer celebrating the Passover, instead he is completing the Passover.  It is out of this story of redemption that Jesus chooses to align his reason for coming into the world.

Why do you think that is the case? Do we need a saviour today?

Read 1 Corinthians10: 14-33

Do we talk about what Communion enough?

If not, discuss why we should talk more about the meaning and significance of Communion in the life and witness of believers?

* SEEDS TO SOW: These are open-ended and optional prompts and are designed for people wanting to develop their own resources in response to the themes. Perhaps if you are using this material as a group you could use these prompts to inspire a time of prayer, or drawing, or creative writing? They are a short and sweet, simply a starting off place for you and your imagination. Tailor and develop as suits your group.