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Just me, my Bible, and The Explicit Gospel Bible study by Matt Chandler.
Side note: It took me a minute to get over the fact that I couldn't find my PINK highlighter. I had to settle with orange and now there will forever be two different colors of highlighter in my study. Yeah. I'm upset about it.
Moving on, I started this Bible study in a discipleship training class that my church offers on Sunday nights. I've never done a Matt Chandler study before and I gotta tell ya, I'm a fan. He's really great about making things understandable.
He's also really great about backing up everything he says with scripture, which is totally how it should be.
Fave snippets from tonight's lesson: (FYI if anyone from class is reading this, obviously I'm behind!!)
"The cross satisfies the justified wrath of God, and God Himself is the justifier."
"Apart from the cross our lives are utterly and hopelessly lost. Completely meaningless."
"Whether or not we realize it, we're all looking for shalom - real wholeness. In the end nothing under the sun brings lasting fulfillment. We have to look beyond the sun. The groove in our hearts can't be filled with the temporal. It demands eternity. Therefore, our very searching for more and more, for bigger and bigger, for better and better is our sense that something is off, amiss, deformed, and broken in our souls. Only Jesus makes us whole. In Him we have shalom."
That last part is my favorite. It's very hard for me to not be constantly wanting more and bigger and better, but those things don't satisfy the hunger we feel, they don't make us whole. It's very easy to forget that.
What does a moment from your day look like?
- Brit
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