Freed to Be God’s Family: The Book of Exodus

Family provides community, identity, and shared values.

In the book of Exodus, God frees Israel from slavery to Egypt. But they are not left as orphans. Rather, the redeemed are made into a new family—God’s family. In Freed to be God’s Family, Mark R. Glanville argues that the central motif of Exodus is community. God wants a healthy, dynamic relationship with the redeemed. As family members, Israel is called to learn God’s ways and reflect God’s character to the world.

Freed to be God’s Family is a concise and accessible guide to the message and themes of Exodus. Each chapter keeps the big picture central and provides probing questions for reflection and discussion.

104 pages.

Forget about Charlton Heston. Mark Glanville shows how Exodus is about more than just Israel’s escape from Egypt. It is a radical narrative about the creation of a completely different kind of society, declaring their allegiance to a whole new kind of King. Mark’s excellent analysis of the biblical text will help shape the missional imagination of your church and equip you to live as a sign to God’s magnificent reign.

–Michael Frost, Founding Director of the Tinsley Institute, Morling College

It is always refreshing to look at a familiar biblical book through different lenses. Mark Glanville helps us enter creatively into the foundational epic of Israel’s emergence out of dehumanising slavery into a community of covenant kinship—the family of God—with all the blessings and responsibilities of that identity. And since their story is our story, it is a book with powerful lessons for us who claim the same identity in the Messiah Jesus, and thus inherit the same missional challenge.

–Christopher J.H. Wright, author of Exodus: The Story of God Bible Commentary