On the Father Front

From the pulpit yesterday we learned that the genealogy in Genesis 5 does not include a standard Old Testament call to a named prophet to bear the Word of God to a given people. There is no missionary call to the foreign field; there are no sons of the covenant who receive a call to outreach and to go preach to a far off nation. Let's say it this way, as an example, we won't read in Genesis 5, And it came to pass that the Word of the Lord came to Jared, the son of Mahalalel, saying, “Arise, go to Egypt.” Why no missionary call? Because the family, the household, the line of faith is the locus for the movement of the gospel; gospel work primarily happens according to the genealogical line of the covenant. Therefore, fathers, you're calling, ordination and commission to the mission field is a calling to your household.

G. Mark Sumpter