Before you ran this race, others ran it. The Scriptures call them 'so great a cloud of witnesses,' real men and women of the covenant who walked with Yahweh through fear, exile, failure, and triumph. They were not statues in stained glass. They were your forefathers and foremothers, scattered and gathered, flawed and faithful. Sha'ul wrote that their stories 'were written for our admonition,' so that we could learn without repeating every mistake. Here are fifteen of them.
Before you ran this race, others ran it. The Scriptures call them 'so great a cloud of witnesses,' real men and women of the covenant who walked with Yahweh through fear, exile, failure, and triumph. They were not statues in stained glass. They were your forefathers and foremothers, scattered and gathered, flawed and faithful. Sha'ul wrote that their stories 'were written for our admonition,' so that we could learn without repeating every mistake. Here are fifteen of them.