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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Taylorsville United Methodist Church: The Story Chap 9 Intro Accepting Foreigners


The Story Chapter 9 Introduction

OCT 30, 2012

Ruth gleaning the fields of grain.

Chapter 9 continues in The Story with a family saga that is so real that it could almost be any of our families. This story could be placed in almost any place or context. It is about a family of Israelites that could not find food during the famine and so they went to a foreign country, Moab to find work and food. Moab is across the Jordan river from their home village of Bethlehem.

After Naomi’s husband and sons die she decides to go back home to Bethlehem, one daughter-in-law, Ruth comes with her.

Let’s tell the story of Ruth a little differently: There is famine in the land, the family of 3 was starving, so they left Mexico, El Salvador, (you fill in the place) and they went to the United States where there were jobs. The boys marry local women, but then the dad and the boys all die, leaving all three women on their own. The Mom decides to go back to Mexico; do the daughters-in-law go back with her?

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This foreign woman ultimately became part of the genealogy of Jesus, the ultimate Redeemer!




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