In ancient churches, and some modern ones, stained-glass windows catch your attention quickly when you enter the building. Unlike paintings, the windows were always to be understood as windows—things you look through, not things you simply look at. You look “through” a stained-glass window by seeing the outside world as defined by the true depiction of reality in the window. The windows are supposed to be portals into reality. Similarly, the movement of our church services as a re-narration of Israel’s deliverance from Egypt should tune our hearts to the way of God in the world—so that when we
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