Are You Leading Your Church Back to Egypt?

Are You Leading Your Church Back to Egypt?

“And they said to each other, ‘We should choose a leader and go back to Egypt.’” —Numbers 14:4

If you know the story behind the verse above, you know how unbelievable that statement is: “Let’s go back to … Egypt.”

You can read the story in Exodus and Numbers for yourself, but basically, for generations, the nation of Egypt forced the Hebrew tribes within their borders into slavery: literal, horrific, violent, oppressive slavery. But now, God had rescued them. They were free for the first time in 400 (!) years.

So why would someone even think, much less say, what they did in Numbers 14? Read More