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Learning Encounter 4 (1)
Learning Encounter 4 (1)
What kind of love is God’s love? God is love and His love is unconditional.
• Who makes the first move between God and man
As a loving God, he makes the first move. He intervenes in our lives so we can live life to the
fullest and can unite with Him.
• What are miracles? Miracles are God’s interventions through events, people, things,
insights and feelings to show his love.
• How do human beings experience miracles? If we respond in faith to God’s initiative?
• What are examples of miracles? The call of Abraham and the events thereafter are
miracles.
• How did Abraham responded to God’s intervention? In faith.
• Gen 12:1-2 Call of Abraham
• What does God want Abraham to leave behind? What does HE want Abraham to use as
basis of his life and security? - the basis of his security and success; God and HIS promises.
• What will Abraham discover if he will not depend on his own resources but on GOD and
HIS promises?
God can be trusted
• Why was Abraham now called the “Father of Faith.?”
His faith in God’s WORD became the basis of his security, the basis of his life.
• How did God reveal himself to Abraham as a God of great compassion?
God gave them a child although Sarah was old and barren, and HE allowed things to happen so
the blessings of land and descendants can be theirs.