Grace and Faith in the Life of Jacob | Matt McCullough | Genesis 28:10-22

Typically stories about national founders?stories designed to give a nation identity and purpose?talk up moral virtues worthy of emulation and play down embarrasing flaws. Israel?s origin stories?perhaps especially stories about Jacob, Israel himself?provide a noticeable contrast to this pattern. That?s because Israel?s national identity?and now the identity of the church?rests upon a different sort of foundation, a foundation that has everything to do with the answer to two crucial questions: What can we expect from God? And what does God expect from us? These are questions the story of Jacob is meant to answer.