![]() My leadership team in the Joint Task Force – National Capital Medicine (later National Capital Region Medical Directorate (NCRMD), part of the Defense Health Agency), routinely met with leaders and workers at military hospitals and clinics throughout our market. There are times, however, when leaders need to interact with their organizations and with other organizations more formally. Most MBWA is informal, with the boss walking from department to department or store to store, meeting people, talking, and most importantly listening to them. Generals such as Napoleon Bonaparte and business tycoons such as Henry Ford were legendary for getting first-hand information about their organization and its environment, but MBWA has been around since before Moses walked among the people of Israel during the Exodus (c. Management gurus since the 1970s have taught leaders to “manage by walking around (MBWA)” getting out of the office and into the workplace to see for themselves what was going on in their organization. #BIBLE DISCOVERY STUNS HOW TO#How to have the most effective visits to outlying sections in your business, and how to have the most effective town hall meetings with stakeholders. Finally, Jesus finished the lesson telling His listeners that they needed to “eat His flesh” and “drink His blood” to have eternal life (6:53-58).Ĭontinue reading “Jesus’ Discourse on the Bread of Life” → After showing the people His ability to provide physically for those who followed Him, He had then described how He Himself was the ultimate bread. It comes from God, and ultimately the bread, that which nourishes the people of God for eternity, is Jesus Christ Himself. ![]() The greater bread is not the bread that perishes with the eating, but that which lasts forever. Now Jesus intended to teach them about greater bread. With the amazing miracle of the prior day, Jesus had shown the people, and His disciples, that He could provide bread for those who followed Him. The next morning Jesus gave His famous, to some infamous, Bread of Life discourse. Jesus escaped and allowed time for the fervor to abate. As a result, they tried to make Him king (6:15). The parallels between Moses giving manna to the Israelites (Exodus 16:1-21), Elisha’s feeding of 100 men (2 Kings 4:42-44), the Lord hosting a magnificent banquet (Isaiah 25:6), and Jesus feeding the multitude were striking to the Jews, hungry as they were for a political Messiah to lead them out of bondage to Rome (6:14). He taught for hours and when the disciples advised Jesus to let the people go to find food, He miraculously fed all of them, possibly more than 15,000 people. John 6 begins with Jesus teaching a multitude of people on a hillside on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee in spring. Good teachers do not merely tell their students the material they show them. Jesus has often been called a master teacher, and the book of John illustrates the truth of that label. Jesus’ most controversial discourse stuns, shocks, offends, and has lots of other signs of good teaching. ![]() To better understand the Bible we must have some understanding of the feasts that meant so much to the Israelites at the time.Ĭontinue reading “Jesus at the Feast of the Tabernacles” → Political and social leaders encourage people to enjoy family and friends, and maybe even thank others who grew the food, but say nothing about God. ![]() Is it any wonder that modern first-world Christians don’t understand how important the feasts were to the Hebrews in the Old Testament? Many Americans’ main worry surrounding the main cultural feasts, Thanksgiving and Christmas, is not putting on too much weight. In modern times we emphasize the role of technology in our prosperity and downplay the grace of God, while in ancient Israel they used existing technology wisely while recognizing that the hand of the Lord was the source of all things. Refrigeration and cheap transportation give us variety and reliability at the dinner table, while the lack of both made it frequently hard for the Hebrews to know where their next meal was coming from. “Feast” in rich modern nations usually means low food prices and “famine” means high food prices, whereas feast in ancient Israel meant life and famine meant death. Our food supply in the developed world is relatively secure, while their food supply, and their survival, depended on each year’s harvest. ![]() Modern Jews and Christians are far removed from the ancient Israelite culture. Knowing ancient Jewish culture will help us know the Bible better, and know God better. ![]()
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