When God talks to Moses, God doesn't bring some new relationship or solution. God links everything back to a historic relationship that has endured for centuries. God isn't choosing something new -- God is being consistent with the faith of Abraham that started in the wilderness. It's been a journey, and God has been present throughout the long and uncertain days and weeks.
When Jesus Christ comes to the people in the 1st century A.D., Jesus doesn't come to radically break away from the past. Jesus comes to reform religious practice, pointing backwards to the centuries of relationship and basing his ministry on that. Jesus is doing a new thing, but it's rooted in history.
In the same way, God isn't calling us away from the past. God is calling us as a new chapter in the same book, rooted in history, branching forward. We are one church, with believers in every time and place, and we stand together with our brothers and sisters in Christ throughout the centuries to rely on what God is doing today, linked to history and looking forward as one community.
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