This Sunday is our Reflection Service for our Second Corinthians series. In the place of a preached message, we will invite many of you to reflect and share publicly how the word has been at work in your heart and mind and life. Our reflection services are built on the expectation that the word of God will always be at work in the lives of believers.

We also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers. (1 Thess. 2:13)

Hearing testimonies of how the word is at work can…

• Help us see something we might have missed, but needed to see the first time through these passages in Acts.
• Strengthen our faith by reassuring that it’s still just as true today that as “the word goes out, the Spirit comes down” and adding to our collection of “I see what You did there, God” stories that embolden us.
• Remind us that the “cloud of witnesses” that encourage us to keep running the race set before us are not just those who have gone before us to heaven, but also those who stand among us every Sunday.
• Deepen our love for one another as we learn more about the different races of faith those around us are running.
• Glorify God who deserves all the glory for all the growth.

Erik Thoennes and Rob Lister will facilitate our time of congregational sharing and prayer and Joe Orr will be leading our worship team.

Here are a few suggestions for how to come prepared this Sunday.

• Read back through Second Corinthians
• Read back through our weekly Meditation & Memorization passages for each sermon. Scroll to the bottom or click here to print a copy to take with you.
• If you missed a sermon along the way (or want to relisten to one that made a particular impact on you), go track it down here.
• If you are a note taker, take time to read back through your notes to remember what the Lord has impressed upon you and taught you through this series.
• Reflect on how Second Corinthians has been timely for you in this season of life. How have you been comforted, encouraged, convicted? How has Jesus been magnified for you?
• If you’ve heard someone at Grace share about a specific way the book of Acts has been at work in his or her life, encourage them to have the boldness to raise their hand and share this Sunday.

See you Sunday, Grace. Come hungry and maybe even with something to share!

 

Weekly Scripture Passages for Meditation & Reflection

MAY 18

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.” (1:3-4)

MAY 25

“And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.” (1:21-22)

JUNE 1

“But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place.” (2:14)

JUNE 8

“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.” (3:17-18)

JUNE 15

“For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” (4:17-18)

JUNE 22

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” (5:17)

JUNE 29

“Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.” (7:1)

JULY 6

“For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.” (7:10)

JULY 13

“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.” (8:9)

JULY 20

“He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.” (9:10-11)

JULY 27

“‘Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.’ For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.” (10:17-18)

AUGUST 3

“For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.” (11:2)

AUGUST 10

“But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” (12:9)

AUGUST 17

“I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls.” (12:15)

AUGUST 24

“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.” (13:14)