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• Hewetson, David Milroy (1929-)

• 1992-09-24

• Moore Theological College

• Hewetson starts with a metaphor of a board meeting in heaven, where angels discuss man's rebellion on earth, how they will kill each other, ransack the creation, and conspire against God. The angels discuss how God loved Noah and how, one day, God might become the one who will save humanity. Hewetson recounts Genesis 12-22 by describing how God approaches Abram and calls him to leave his pagan community and form a new community in a new place. He describes this as taking the first steps to a pilgrimage to a relationship the Bible describes as friendship with the maker and sustainer of all creation. Abraham would become a spiritual progenitor. The Abraham story shows three things to Hewetson: 1. I am grateful for Abraham, who is the model of faith 2. When God brings someone into a friendship with himself, they are called to go and form a new allegiance to Christ, His Word and a new lifestyle. Just as Abraham was called into a personal relationship with God, which overflowed to all the earth, we are called to be spiritual instruments in which that relationship overflows. 3. God tests those He calls into ministry to see if they can last the distance and trust him even when things are stacked against them. Abraham's fear drives him to Egypt, but later, he learns and trusts God, letting Lot choose the land first. Can we stand the distance? Trust God to provide? Faith grows by being exercised and through failure.

• Abraham, (Biblical patriarch)

• English

• Moore Theological College

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