Story
Jacob has spent a life arranging outcomes — the stew, the blessing, the speckled flocks, the gift train for Esau. At the Jabbok he…
Identity · Calling · Pride
Genesis 32
Quote
No ordinary people
C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory (1941)
Lewis again, from The Weight of Glory: “There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.” The people in the pews, the difficult relative, the stranger in the checkout line — they are beings who will one day be either everlasting splendors or everlasting ruins. The line is not a compliment. It is a weight. It makes gossip heavier, and welcome holier, and the person we find inconvenient suddenly impossible to dismiss.
How you’d preach it
Use near the end, when you want the text to walk out into ordinary rooms. Ask them to picture one face they have treated as ordinary this week. Then read Lewis, and stop talking for a moment.
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Lewis · Genesis 1
Genesis 1:27; 1 John 3:2