The Big 10

The senior pastor at the church where I work has been focusing on the 10 commandments these last few weeks.  He is launching something of a campaign for everyone in his church to learn them.

I told him that I could sing the 10 commandments.  Now, mind you, I never said I couldn’t say them.  I just said that learning a song had helped me to learn them.  We disagree on the benefits of using a song as a tool to learning important truths, but I digress . . .

The real point of my bringing this up is that all of this 10 commandment talk has made me appreciate the simplicity and complexity of the law as it was given to the Hebrews via Moses.  The law is simple in that the decrees are clear and concise–easy to understand.  Yet they also present the complexity of our relationships with one another and with God and that there are serious consequences that touch everyone in community when these laws are broken.

I don’t have a lot of time to post more, but I leave you with some links that I think are helpful tools in learning and heeding the Big 10 —the 10 commandments.org; vocal music of the Decalogue from the Genevan Psalter, and lyrics and printed notes of the same.