The follower of Christ instead wages war in the Spirit, destroying arguments and opinions raised against God, taking all thoughts captive to obey Christ.
Category: Scripture Journal
Cleanse yourselves of all defilement
If God is to be with us, we must be holy. Indeed, seeking the completion of holiness is only the proper response of God’s children.
Working with Jesus
It is a high honor for the believer to be called to work with Christ. We do not merely work for Christ. We surely do not work separate from Christ. Rather, we work with Jesus that God might reconcile the world to himself.
A special place in God’s heart
Scripture pictures the godly response as seeing people in need as an opportunity to serve Christ, rather than an obstacle to our success.
The church as a hospital
The local church should be like a hospital which receives wounded people without judgment or recrimination and nurses them back to health.
Desire to be used for God’s glory
HIGHLIGHT 1 Corinthians 14:1 (ESV): 14Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. EXPLAIN In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul talked about how different members of the body all work together. In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul explained that love is the greatest of all things. Now […]
Champion the truth.
Deuteronomy 19:18–19 (ESV): 18 The judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely, 19 then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. In the […]
Reducing Poverty
God desires that not only we individually demonstrate love and care for one another, but also that our economic systems be structured in order to provide for each other.
Make me a servant
1 Corinthians 9:19 (ESV): 19 For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. In 1 Corinthians 8 Paul addressed the controversy among good Christians whether to eat meat that had been offered to idols. He said […]
Learn from your past
We must always guard against spiritual pride. We must learn from our failures to live godly. We must recognize how undeserving we are of God’s grace. Then, we should live carefully, holy before our Lord.