Sacred Scriptures: God Calls Abram

Over the next five weeks in worship, we will be focusing our time together on the scriptures that people in our congregation named as sacred to them--verses and stories that have shaped them in their faith, that have stuck with them over time.  Because five weeks is not enough time to cover all the stories and passages people named, each day (except Sundays) one passage that was named by some people but that did not make the "Top 5" will be featured here, with an accompanying image and questions for reflection.  May this be a chance for you to reencounter long-known texts and to discover new ones that are sacred to others and may become sacred to you!



Genesis 12:1-4

Now the Lord said to Abram, ‘Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’ So Abram went, as Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

• What does it mean to be blessed by God?
• I wonder what Abram was thinking as he began his journey.
• How can one person and his family become a blessing to all the earth?