I believe the answer is God’s mission, as stated in the “Call to Abram,” with God’s promises needed to be fulfilled through this couple chosen by Him — no matter how flawed Abram’s ...

God calls Abram in faith to pick up and leave “your land, your relatives, and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you” (12:1).

Often in the Bible, we see God calling faithful followers to leave places of comfort. In the Old Testament, for instance, God calls Abram and his wife Sarai (later known as Abraham and Sarah ...