This Sunday, we will join together for another Spirit-filled summer worship. We will welcome back the Eastgate team that spent the week in Joplin, helping that community as it continues to recover from last May's devastating tornado. And we will continue our series on Abraham, the father of faith.
In the first three sermons, we have seen instances when Abraham has responded to God with perfect faith. He entered into covenant with God, knowing that it would change his descendants' way of life, without asking anything for himself, and he reaffirmed this covenant multiple times. Last week, we considered the story of the binding of Isaac, where God tested Abraham by asking that he sacrifice his only son.
Despite Abraham's monumental faith, though, he was only human, and he fell short a few times in his approach to things. This Sunday we will focus on the painful story of Hagar and Ishmael, where Sarah's wife, after the birth of her son Isaac, insisted that her handmaiden and her son (by Abraham) be thrown out of the household so that Isaac will receive the full inheritance of his father. In "Blinders : The Limitation of Abraham's Faith," we will explore the presence of these stumbling blocks -- these blind spots -- that we never overcome, despite our best efforts in faith. How should we consider these mistakes we never really see as mistakes in our lives? More importantly and more practically, how should we consider such blind spots in the lives of others around us as they strive to live out their faith?
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