TEACHING
|
SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 2022
10:30 AM (kids! + communion) SUMMER SERIES: Storytelling No. 5 Jacob, The Angel, and a Name Change Genesis 32:22-32, Job with Shel Boese The story of Jacob provides vital information about the kind of relationship God has with the creation—and it’s not what you think. When we begin to understand the implications, it changes how we relate to questions, doubt, and ultimately ourselves.
The story of Jacob provides vital information about the kind of relationship God has with the creation—and it’s not what you think. When we begin to understand the implications, it changes how we relate to questions, doubt, and ultimately ourselves.
It is our resistance to what we experience that makes creativity possible. So don’t get rid of resistance like that by going around it or trying to eliminate it...I say to myself, go on seeking, be glad for being sensitive, be glad you’re able to go beyond the resistance inside you. -Brother Roger, Taize Community Biblical faith is grounded in authenticity...biblical faith is covenantal...biblical faith is about faithful living ____________________ in the face of uncertainty. BOTD, Boyd, 77. FIRST READING Genesis 32:22-32 SECOND CLOSER READING Genesis 32:22 During the night Jacob quickly took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 He took them and sent them across the stream along with all his possessions. 24 So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him. Genesis 32:26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” “I will not let you go,” Jacob replied, “unless you bless me.” 27 The man asked him, “What is your name?” He answered, “Jacob.”
Genesis 32:29 Then Jacob asked, “Please tell me your name.” “Why do you ask my name?” the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there. 30 So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining, “Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived.” Genesis 32:31 The sun rose over him as he crossed over Penuel, but he was limping because of his hip. 32 That is why to this day the Israelites do not eat the sinew which is attached to the socket of the hip, because he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip near the attached sinew. KEY LEARNINGS The Name Change is also a Faith Change
Sources: Benefit of the Doubt: Breaking the Idol of Certainty, G. Boyd; Working Preacher, October 17, 2010, Sara M. Koenig; Feasting on the Word; Cornerstone Commentary: Genesis, A. Ross; Walter Brueggemann, Genesis. Interpretation; Terence Fretheim, “Genesis.” New Interpreters Bible Volume I; Others. |