Friday, July 25, 2008

The Leviticus Challenge!

I read an interesting article today about a Boston church that decided to study Leviticus in a unique way. Here's the first paragraph:

Mention Leviticus to most people and what comes to mind is that arcane tome of Torah devoted primarily to the proper (and gruesome) management of sin through animal sacrifice. Others may recall mind-numbing instructions on how to rightly handle infectious skin disease and mildew, and a mishmash of other commandments about not mixing fibers and seeds and not sleeping with your stepmother or sister or nephew—commandments deemed either irrelevant or plain common sense. Rarely studied and even more rarely preached, Leviticus often becomes that graveyard where read-through-the-Bible-in-a-year plans go to die. Skeptics know it as ammunition for homosexual haters or as a target for animal-rights activists. Many Jews regard it as awkward and outmoded. To slog through it can be unbelievably tedious. Which is why most of us don't.
But what would it look like to take Leviticus as seriously as we take the rest of the Bible?


Pastor Daniel Harrell decided to get a group of people together for a 30-day challenge: to live "Levitically." To see how this interesting experiment went, click here for the rest of the article: The 30-Day Leviticus Challenge

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