ALTARations: Elijah - altaring our doubts and fears (Greg)

Altars – those places where we come face-to-face with God and stuff gets turned upside down, transformed, altered. There is a hard to forget altar story in the ancient book of 1 Kings in the bible. There a man named Elijah, a prophet of the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob (the good guy), takes on the prophets of Baal (the bad guys). A spectacular event results, but that’s not the end of the story. It plays out on a mountain where Elijah runs for his life despite his slamdunk victory earlier. It isn’t just a 3000 year old action thriller, it’s a story about something we have to deal with everyday. (1 Kings 18.16 through 19.18)