3C's Bible Study

We continue to examine the marks and rewards of an intentional or disciplined life and examine how to be ready, like Paul, to live out our calling in every circumstance.

Living and building intentionally begins by anchoring our lives on the whole counsel of God, captured in the gospel of His grace, which provides for our salvation, sanctification, and empowerment to live out our calling.

In this episode, we follow Paul to Macedonia and Greece, and examine the value of divine detours, especially those that create an opportunity for fellowship.

We completed our study of Acts 19 (verses 21–41), centered on the sovereignty of God as the defining theme — His unstoppable work, the role of faithful consistency, and how to defeat spiritual strongholds.

We focus on three key themes: God working unusual miracles through Paul independent of Paul's direct involvement; the authority to use the name of Jesus; and how the Word of God can prevail in us and through us.

We close the session with personal prayers of repentance and supplication for cleansing from and removal of any "accursed" thing in or around our lives, so the Word of God may be exalted.

We follow Paul to Ephesus where we see the intersection between reason and reality, the necessity of the Holy Spirit's baptism as a doorway into the reality of our faith, and the fruitful model of reasoning with the Word that propagated the Gospel message throughout Asia.

Our faith, though a mystery, is conceptually and coherently framed and captured by the Word of God, making the Word our most effective tool in the assignment of witness and making disciples of all nations.

We examine why the Word wins, using Paul's 18-month adventure in Corinth as a model of the fruits of faithful engagement and perseverance in the Word.

In this episode, we explore the fascinating idea that our lives are to be windows of grace to those we work and relate with daily, using Paul's tent-making trade, and continued witness to the Jews, as a model.

We conclude with a cry to be witnesses - vessels whose lives a windows of grace to our generation, through our consecration and saturation with God.

We examine Paul's encounter with the Athenians, and the breakthrough message that points every generation, and every heart, away from its idols, and back to the living God.

We follow Paul's missionary journeys to Thessaloniki and Berea where we encounter the crucial question of why "the Christ had to suffer and be raised from the dead" and its significance to the efficacy of the message of Christianity and the Gospel.

We conclude with a plea for our hearts to burn again with the truth and reality of the meaning and effect of the sufferings and resurrection of Christ so we can bear and more effective witness to Him everywhere we go.