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Three lessons from New Zealand
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This is part of my challenge in reading and understanding the Bible. I am a westerner looking through an urban lens at a book that mostly comes from an agrarian society.
Remote places have mattered to God and been part of his plan from the beginning. There are no boonies in the sovereign purposes and love of God. Urban and rural, city and village, nation states, provinces and unceded lands are all included.
Sometimes we forget that Jesus was born in an unfashionable area in a little regarded province. What started in the wop-wops of the Roman Empire spread from Jerusalem, to Judea and Samaria and the ends of the earth, including the places we today know as Scotland, Canada and New Zealand and many points in between.
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