Handouts: None given
Reminders:
- Service Project: The 10 hours, 2 forms, and 1 essay are due on Apr 23, 2017
- Devotion 1 Outline: Due Oct 16 (typed submitted to TurnItIn.com by 8am)
Journal:
- Work on page 7 of your Study Packet.
- - The verses are from Genesis
- - You may work quietly together as a table.
- When done, make sure you’re done with pages 8, 9, 10, 12
Genesis 29-31: Jacob & Laban: Study packet, page 2
- Jacob Prospers: After 14 years…
- - - He quickly realizes what happened and pursues them!
- - - - The night before he catches Jacob—
- - - - - God warns him to treat Jacob rightly
- - - - Laban catches up with Jacob…
- - - - - They have an angry argument
- - - - - Laban searches for the idols, but Rachel kept them hidden)
- - - - Jacob knows that God’s presence and help was the only reason he prospered during his time with Laban
- - - Jacob and Laban make a covenant at Mizpah
- - - - They both promise kindness to each other
- - - - As a sign of this covenant, they set up and name a heap of rocks (“Witness Heap”)
- God blesses us in ways we do not deserve
- God can use terrible things for great purposes!
Genesis 29-31: Jacob and Laban - Anthropology:
- We cause horrible drama when we work outside of God’s design
- We’re often ‘caught’ by our own sins (as Jacob, the deceiver, was deceived)
- God’s followers, can trust in God’s presence & help throughout their lives
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