It seems there are a growing number of what are coming to be called, “de-conversion stories”—stories of how a person who identified as a Christian came to identify themselves, in one way or another, apart from Christ. These stories should sober us up to look out for our own soul and the souls of our brother and sisters. These stories are worth listening to, to understand how one person got from confessing Christ to rejecting Christ. They’re also a reason to re-examine the question of how one becomes a Christian. With this sermon we begin a short series through the Bible’s second book, the story of Exodus. The story of Exodus is a conversion story. It’s our conversion story. How does a people go from bondage to Pharaoh to bonding with the Lord? How does a people go from servitude to a wicked master to sonship to God? How does a people go from building cities for the world’s kingdoms, to building a tent for the Lord’s presence?