Don’t Go back to Egypt

As we’re continuing in worship today, I want to give you four things to pray about.

Pray for Sam. Her dear husband, Austin Sthole passed into the arms of Jesus on Thursday evening. Sam, we are so sorry for your loss.

Pray for two in our congregation that have recent cancer diagnoses.

Pray for Joel Shipman who is in Columbia at University hospital in need of heart bipass surgery.

You know, whenever I go to Columbia for a hospital visit or otherwise I have to go through at least one of those silly round-abouts. These all way stop sign replacements would be all find and dandy if they were standardized, but each one seems different. You have to be an expert cartographer to understand and interpret the sign before you get to this crash-site creator. Merge in the left lane if you want to go north, stay in the right lane if you want to go south or east, and merge to the third lane(?) if you want to keep going around and around the round-about. The last time I approached one of these round-abouts I was started facing one direction with the intent to finish facing a completely different direction, but ended up facing the same direction that I started. It appeared that it didn’t change my trajectory at all.

In Ephesians chapter 4, Paul warns about the Gospel not changing your trajectory at all. If you come to believe and surrender to Jesus, God wants to transform your character into the likeness of Christ and change the trajectory of your life.

“This is a series of practical implications of important theological realities. We’re saved by grace, we’ve been formed into the body of Christ with concern for unity and diversity. These instructions are there for that purpose. There is a reversal motif. It’s not enough to stop being a thief you should reverse that. Christianity is not about the cessation of something bad, but about the introduction of something wonderful.” -Constantine Campbell

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