Genesis 12
v. 1-3 How much of this is on Abram?
v. 7 What is Abram doing? Why is this appropriate?
v. 8 Why is it a big deal that Abram "called on the name of the Lord?"
v. 13 Is Abram the perfect hero?
v. 17 Why is Pharaoh punished rather than Abram?
Genesis 13
v. 2 Does this mean we should be to?
v. 13 Why tell us this?
v. 16 Why does your pastor want to remind you at this verse that Sarai is barren?
v. 18 What does Abram do? Why does he keep doing this?
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"v. 13 Is Abram the perfect hero?" The answer here, as it was with Noah, is of course No, and that's the point. The focus here is God's faithfulness, not man's worthiness.
ReplyDeleteI'm reminded of how many of my ETBU students responded when we read Augustine's Confessions. Augustine could have gone toe-to-toe with Paul for the title of "chief of sinners," especially where sexual immorality was concerned. God saved him, delivered him from his lusts, and he became a saint (small-s for us, capital-S from the Catholic point of view). My students often said, "well, if there was hope for Augustine, there's hope for me." And there is, because our God is the same now as He was then!
Exactly. The Bible is not a book of heroes and heroines, but a book of The Hero. Abraham, Moses, David, Jeremiah, Peter, Paul... they all had major flaws, but they trusted in the One who will not fail.
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