This is my story

Epiphany is the season of celebrating God's revealing nature. One of the ways that revelation occurs is through Scripture. In Nehemiah 8, the remnant of Israel left in Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile hear again their scriptures read and explained. People are moved to weep as they listen. In Luke 4:14-21, Jesus reads from Isaiah and then gives interpretation of what has been read. Pastor Ross Erb invites the congregation to consider how we read the Bible today. Rather than looking at the individual verses or chapters or books, we were invited to look at the Biblical story as a whole.  With the assistance of Kim and Eric Schmucker, recent graduates of Hesston College and Eastern Mennonite University, Pastor Ross outlined the heilsgeschichte, the salvation story, and invited us to place ourselves in this story and make it ours.