Holy Ground at Work: The Witness Our Neighbors Can See

The parking lot still treats last month's sending as a private hobby. A man in this church was asked to speak with a neighbor. The card is still in the glove box. He can quote the bush if you ask him. The coworker he was named to walk toward still thinks this church is a building with a sign.

A woman across the aisle has a different finished peace. She already prints holy ground at work on the invite. She still treats the person in the next cubicle as a later project. The group calls that wisdom. A teenager in the balcony is deciding whether this church is a people the street can watch or a branding system with better theology.

This is a sermon about the witness our neighbors can already see. If you preach it as a map of anyone's private calling, you will lie. If you preach it as Moses keeping Jethro's flock at Horeb in a real wilderness, you give this church a God who meets a man in ordinary work and sends him toward costly obedience, and a people who cannot treat a printed holy-ground sentence as the witness the nations can already name.

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Hear the meeting as Holy Scripture tells it, from the World English Bible: "Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb. Yahweh’s angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. Moses said, “I will go now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” When Yahweh saw that he came over to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, “Moses!