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What is the one key idea of this chapter. pay attention to the title of the chapter!
Write about two major ideas you want to remember. Write a short paragraph on each clearly stating the idea and then telling why you want to remember it.
One image that captures the chapter for you.
One significant question you have from this chapter. It can be intellectual or personal.
Do one of the "Living the Gospel" questions at the end of the chapter. Write out the question, reflect upon it and write out your answer.

Journal

The one key idea of this chapter is "Called into relationship." The chapter explains that Jesus is the fulfillment of the Old Covenant and a New Covenant. He is the event of the Christians, much like the Exodus is the event of the Jews. Jesus fulfills the Old Covenant in ways able to be compared with the Exodus, but he also creates a New Covenant with God. This chapter also wants us to be able to make connections between the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Old Testament is the foundation of both Jews and Christians and it was what Jesus learned from.
The comparison of the Exodus to Jesus Christ was quite interesting. I found it a great connection between the Old and New Testaments. The two covenants fit together nicely. In the Old Covenant the Israelites, who were slaves of Egypt, were saved by the Blood of the Lamb (the tenth plague) while in the New Testament the followers of Jesus, who were slaves to sin, were freed by the Lamb of God. The Israelites crossed the waters of the Red Sea, while the followers of Jesus crossed the waters of Baptism. I want to remember this because I really enjoy historical comparisons. History repeats itself.
I also think that the sources of Jesus outside the Gospels is interesting. These people wrote of him, which proves that he had a great impact on those other than Christians. Josephus, a Jewish member of wealth, wrote of him as a "doer of remarkable deeds" and "a teacher of people who receive the truth with delight". Tacticus, a Roman historian, wrote of Emperor Nero blaming the Christians for burning down the city. Pliny the Younger, another Roman official, wrote of his asking of people if they are Christians and giving them second and third chances to say "no". Suetonius wrote of punishments given to Christians for being Christian. These accounts show that there is a great following of Christ in the few years after Christ's crucifixion.
Why did God allow Abraham to have Ishmael AND Isaac when he, being the omniscient presence that He is, knew that it would lead to a huge dispute over the Holy Land?
In a poem, song, or role-play, tell or show how the world would be different today if Jesus had never been born?

*ahem* A Poem
If Jesus Christ were never born,
Christians would have never formed.
There wouldn't have been a papal war.
Or Crusaders travelling from afar.
But there wouldn't be things given by Him,
For example, forgiveness of all our sins.
We wouldn't have been saved from death.
And hell would have no space left.
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