With Moses On Mount Sinai

On the 31st anniversary of Word of Life Church, Pastor Brian Zahnd tells the story of back-to-back days standing atop Mount Sinai in Egypt and Mars Hill in Greece. To do so is not easy, and would not have even been possible in the days before jet travel. But it was an experience filled with prophetic symbolism and was an indication what the next five years would hold for Word of Life Church.

Moses also climbed Mount Sinai, and it is the place where he received the 10 Commandments from the Lord. This was the Law, written by the finger of God on two stone tablets. The purpose of the law is to produce justice and a worshiping society; to learn how to worship God in order to treat people right. Jesus tells us on the Mount of Beatitudes that he did not come to abolish the Law, he came, rather, in order to fulfill it. The entire Sermon on the Mount is about the whole Law summed up in two commandments: To love God with all your heart and to love your neighbor as yourself. This is the Jesus Way. This is what God's design for humanity is.