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This week, we look at the truth of who we are as His Church and God's promises to His people on earth. Eugene Peterson says this in the message bible regarding Ephesians 1:23, “The church, you see, is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ’s body, in whom He speaks and acts, by which He fills everything with His presence.” The greatest honor and privilege any of us has been given is to belong to Jesus and His Church. This week, we look at God's promises to His church and the reality of who we are as the body of Christ. 

This week, we look at the reality that God loves His creation. Genesis tells us that He made everything, and it was all good. Creation is a perfect and wonderful gift of God that humanity's sin decimated. Psalm 96 reminds us that the earth will rejoice on the day when Jesus returns because (Romans 8) then the earth will be set free from its bondage and liberated to be what it was created to be. This is a great week to speak about the beauty and majesty of creation and how God has made promises for His earth. 

This week, we look at the reality that God loves His creation. Genesis tells us that He made everything, and it was all good. Creation is a perfect and wonderful gift of God that humanity's sin decimated. Psalm 96 reminds us that the earth will rejoice on the day when Jesus returns because (Romans 8) then the earth will be set free from its bondage and liberated to be what it was created to be. This is a great week to speak about the beauty and majesty of creation and how God has made promises for His earth. 

For the second week in a row, our Be The Change reminder is completely contrary to the way that so many in our world live, think, and move.  Our world is not filled with peace-bringers but instead seems to be filled with people who celebrate and elevate those who live and speak in a way that brings turmoil and tension!  As a result, “Living Peacefully” as Christian people, showing others that we are different, is absolutely critical to us making a difference, being the change, and shining our light in this sin-darkened world!   

For the second week in a row, our Be The Change reminder is completely contrary to the way that so many in our world live, think, and move.  Our world is not filled with peace-bringers but instead seems to be filled with people who celebrate and elevate those who live and speak in a way that brings turmoil and tension!  As a result, “Living Peacefully” as Christian people, showing others that we are different, is absolutely critical to us making a difference, being the change, and shining our light in this sin-darkened world!   

John 21:1-25 offers profound lessons about Jesus’ ongoing care for His disciples, His restorative love, and the sufficiency of Scripture. This passage reminds us of Jesus’ care in both spiritual and practical matters, His readiness to forgive and restore, and the completeness of God’s Word for guiding our lives.

Our Be The Change reminder for today is completely counter-cultural in 2024.  Our world is filled with what could be called “consumers” and lacks what we’re called to be, and that’s “contributors.”  Through the Holy Spirit’s power in our lives, we can live not only lives filled with “Being a Contributor” but, as we’re encouraged in our 2Corinthians reading today, to be “generous” contributors of all that we’ve been given as well!