This document discusses the biblical stories of Jesus and Moses as examples of crossing borders to escape oppression. It notes how Joseph, Mary and Jesus fled to Egypt to escape King Herod's decree to kill children, drawing parallels to the story of Moses and the Egyptian Pharaoh's decree. The document also references the large number of unaccompanied Central American minors apprehended at the US border and calls Christians to have the humble, servant-like mind of Christ in how we treat migrants.

1. Practice Discipleship
Julia Lambert Fogg

2. We meet God before there were boundaries…

3. & the Spirit of
God hovered
over the deep

8. When the people suffered under unjust conditions, God crossed the
borders …

13. • What borders do we cross as God’s
children?
• What boundaries come down as we follow
God?

14. One family’s story

18. 13 When the magi had departed, an angel
from the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream
and said,
“Get up. Take the child and his mother and
escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for
Herod will soon search for the child in order to
kill him.”
14 Joseph got up and, during the night, took
the child and his mother to Egypt. 15 He
stayed there until Herod died. This fulfilled

20. 16 When Herod knew the magi
had fooled him, he grew very
angry. He sent soldiers to kill all
the children in Bethlehem and in
all the surrounding territory who
were two years old and
younger, according to the time
that he had learned from the

22. 19 After King Herod died, an angel
from the Lord appeared in a dream
to Joseph in Egypt. 20 ‘Get up,’ the
angel said, ‘and take the child and
his mother and go to the land of
Israel. Those who were trying to kill
the child are dead.’
21 Joseph got up, took the child and
his mother, and went to the land of

23. On the road again…

25. 22 But when he heard that Archelaus
ruled over Judea in place of his father
Herod, Joseph was afraid to go there.
Having been warned in a dream, he
went to the area of Galilee.
23 He settled [his family] in a city
called Nazareth…

27. • Moses born to the
Jews
• An Egyptian King’s
decree to kill the boys
• Egypt the oppressor
• Death to the Egyptian
first born
• Escape across
borders
• To the Promised Land
• Following God
• Jesus born to the
Jews
• Herod’s decree to kill
all children in
Bethlehem
• Rome the oppressor
• Weeping in Rama for
the children
• Escape across
borders
• To Egypt land & back
• “I have called my son

28. Another family’s story

32. 8/4/2014 “…more than 11,000 apprehensions of unaccompanied Mexican minors
during this fiscal year (October 1 through May 31, 2014)…”

33. A theology of migration

34. John 1

36. & the
Word
became
flesh &
dwelt
among
us…

37. • Let the same mind be in you all that was in
Christ Jesus:
• Who, though he was in the form of God,
• did not regard equality with God as something
to be exploited,
• but emptied himself,
• taking the form of a slave,
• being born in human likeness,
• and being found in human form he humbled
himself

39. To cross boundaries, to reach out and to meet our