Promised Birthright (The State of City Church)
“By now you know that I’m a simple pastor. I don’t carry much whiz-bang. I can write letters, though, and I’d like to offer these to you. Letters require time, a listening ear, a curious heart. And I can offer those... I write because I want to be the kind of person who would linger and write a letter, and because I suspect I have happened upon friends who instinctively know, perhaps better than I do, what I mean.”
Service Date: February 3, 2019
Note: Erik shared The State of City Church in the form of a letter. If you’d like to read it, you can download a PDF here.
Genesis 25:27-34
27 When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents. 28 Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
29 Once when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted. 30 And Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted!” (Therefore his name was called Edom.) 31 Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright now.” 32 Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?”33 Jacob said, “Swear to me now.” So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob. 34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.