The Flood and a New Future

With the help of the study, “Bible Stories for Grown Ups” by Pastor Josh Scott, this series will invite us to consider new and deeper meanings in Bible characters and events that may be very familiar and yet can also be disturbing and challenging. As people who embrace the scripture as “wonderful words of life”, how do these passages call us into deeper discipleship today? 

“Human violence is not dissipating with each successive generation but multiplying and creating the context for the story of Noah and the Great Flood: the earth is full of human violence… A creation that had been integrated is becoming dis-integrated. The order spoken into existence by God is being dis-ordered. The result is the collapse and destruction of human civilization.” pg. 12

“We aren’t left without safe passage, however. In this story, Noah and his family are provided with an ark to guide them through the Flood and into a new future. With that in mind, what might the arks available to us look like?” pg. 16