Leviticus 17:1-6 is one of those passages that most of us breeze past. Sacrificing goats in fields? Cool, Old Testament Israel, do your thing. But tucked in this ancient text is a principle I think we desperately need today. God told Israel, “If anyone kills an ox, lamb, or goat anywhere except at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, they’re guilty of bloodshed.” In other words: if you’re sacrificing wherever you want, you’re missing the point entirely. Here’s why this matters: Israel wasn’t surrounded by people who didn’t sacrifice. They were surrounded by people who sacrificed everywhere....