If you have a vested interest in the outcome of any rational process, then that outcome must always be suspect.

And the people of Israel said to Moses, "Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone. "
Numbers 17:12

The selection of Aaron's sons as the only legitimate priesthood was a great cultural shift within Israel. Prior to this point, every family had its own priest, and anyone could act as a priest from time to time.

The narrowing of this office and role to a single lineage must have felt like God had taken away any ability to approach him, as if God had taken the Levites as his people and rejected the rest of Israel. They did not yet understand that someone from one tribe could act as a priest of YHVH for someone from another.

Never marvel when most people can’t see what you see, understand what you understand, or believe what you believe, even when they are looking the evidence in the face.

Each of us has a framework for living that our society, experiences, language, culture, family and religion have built up for us. And it is terribly difficult (if not impossible) for most of us to break out of it…let alone even question it.

And as long as we are seeing all things of our life in the light of that framework there will be a great many matters we will not be able to comprehend. We can not comprehend them because we do not have the capacity to do so. Not so long as we remain inside the framework we’ve constructed for us.

We ourselves who are walking The Way, have begun to break out of that framework, to dismantle it where need-be, and to assess matters without its biased influence. And this is a beautiful thing…but we must be patient with all those still locked inside their framework.

They can not see what’s infront of their face because it does not fit their framework. So if we want to help these people, if we want to aid their understanding and assist them to start walking in The Way, we must not present them with truth, however tempting that may be. They don’t have the capacity to see it, understand it, and believe it. And those who can begin to understand, will not possess the capability to keep it.

Instead, we must provide these people with questions, with doubts about their preconceptions, with reasons to distrust the nature of their life-narrative and the structural stability of their framework.

Until they can make their escape as we have begun to do ourselves, the greatest miracle imaginable can happen right infront of their eyes and they will most certainly merely slough it off as nonsense and no matter of import.

Question Everything
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In a world gone mad, sometimes the most productive thing you can do is spend time in prayer, worship, and Scripture reading.

Because while we don’t know how to make a difference on our own power, HE knows how we can with HIS.

Shalom dear fellow Shofar Blowers and Listeners!


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We are Looking forward to sounding the Shofar with you in Jerusalem!
Shalom,
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Shalom dear fellow Shofar Blowers and Listeners!


? Here is your Meeting Link:https://dateful.com/eventlink/2753910087

Feel free to invite others using this link:https://tube.ttn.place/v/KmZMaD

?Please let us know if you would like to lead worship in one of the next meetings, or know someone that would.

We are Looking forward to sounding the Shofar with you in Jerusalem!
Shalom,
Camp Ephraim