Questions from Jesus: “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”

Read Luke10:25-37

“We are the Bibles the world is reading; we are the creeds the world is needing; we are the sermons the world is heeding.” ~Billy Graham

How do you inherit eternal life? Listen up…

1. Love the Lord your God with all your:

• Heart

• Soul

• Strength

• Mind

and…

2. Love your neighbor as yourself…

• It’s a risk worth taking.

• It's compassion worth giving.

• It's time worth spending.

• It's a resource worth investing.

Confession

God, I confess, at times it is easier to love you than it is to love people. But I realize that to love you and to be loved by you should motivate me to love others. Help me to see that loving is not something I do, but it should be someone I am. I want to see all people as my neighbor and love them as Jesus has shown his love to me, sacrificially and unconditionally.

Questions From Jesus: “Do you still not understand?”

Read Mark 8:14-21)

“Understanding begins with knowledge and ends with application, which never ends this side of eternity.” Asil Treblig

Do you still not understand…

1. Who I truly am?

2. What I came to do?

3. Why I am the only one to do it?

4. How I want you to be different than them?

· Purity not conformity

· Resting not striving

· Being not doing

· Grace-full not lawful

Confession

God, I confess there are things I don’t understand about you, and by faith, ​I praise you for the unknown. But I want to show off to the world the things you have made known to me that I do understand. May my life be a living, transparent example of who you are - a God of love and grace, a God who saves and restores, a God of forgiveness and hope. May I represent you well to all who are looking. Amen!​