Monday, March 31, 2008

Where did you get the Josiah Community name?

Arloa writes:

Josiah was a young king who asked the high priest Hilkiah to clean out the temple. In the temple Hilkiah found the Word of God which had not been read or obeyed for years. When the Scripture was read to Josiah, he tore his robes and repented. Later, Jeremiah would say of Josiah, “He defended the cause of the poor and needy so that all went well. ‘Is that not what it means to know me?’ declares the Lord.” We hope that the Josiah Community will be a place where people can dialogue in honesty about Scripture and how it is applied in an urban setting where together, in an economically depressed community, we will experience the affects of economic struggle and social injustice. Hopefully in so doing, we, like Josiah, will discover what it means to know God.

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