ReCalling

1. ReCalling (Discipleship)

• Bible passage: Jacob wrestling with the angel - Genesis 32: 22 - 31
• We are being re-called to God
• It’s our story and God’s story
• A struggle
• The people who ended up ‘delivering on what God wanted’ were the last people who expected to be called
• Jacob was Joseph’s father – a dynasty, moving on
• Jesus walking by the lake with the disciples at the end of John 21
• Superhero films have a sense of destiny
• When I am weak, then I am strong
• Being known by name – Jacob and Israel

Resource ideas:

1. The Hound of Heaven poem by Frances Thompson – are you running away from anything that you need to confront?
2. Mary Oliver poem ‘what will you do with the rest of your life?’
3. The Shack – recalled through struggle
4. Something about being known by name – in the bible the name of a person expresses the character of the person as God knows it - if you were a stick of rock what would be the name running through you?
5. Film: Fellowship of the Ring: only Frodo can carry it – what is it you are being called to carry?  Unexpected people are called to carry things for God
6. Back to Church Sunday – preparing for September – re-calling people to the church
7. Love Bade me Welcome by George Herbert