Rest and receive in the prayer attributed to St. How is your heart and home being refined to be a refuge for others?.Where do you see an opportunity for Gospel seeds to be sown in your neighborhood?.Describe a time when you sensed you missed an opportunity for the Gospel?.The world doesn’t need a church building to attend to seek refuge. We, the Body of Christ, are literally the manifest presence of Christ in the world. We have the opportunity to personally connect with our neighbors and neighborhood. It’s an opportunity that may never be offered to us again. Now it’s time for the Church to go to the people. Today our Churches are closed.Īfter 9/11, the people came to the Church. After 9/11, people came to the Church for comfort and refuge. We live in a different kind of fear and yet are not allowed to come together. Keller’s church grew by 5 times in a matter of weeks. Keller talked about how in the days and weeks after 9/11, there was a “coming together.” He said, “everyone was frightened, so everyone came together.” In the days after 9/11, the people of New York City flocked to the churches. Pastor Tim Keller of Redeemer Church in New York City recently discussed the events in his church following the tragic events of 9/11. The opportunity before the Church in this day is immense. Instead of receiving Him, they killed Him.” They were visited by their Savior, but they did not know it. Rick Flanders notes, “The Israelites that assembled in Jerusalem for the Passover missed the opportunity to be saved from both earthly and eternal destruction. In some ways, He is weeping over the tragedy of lost opportunity. Jesus is speaking here from a place of deep grief. Jesus cries over Jerusalem at least three times. “As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it….” Luke 19.41 Monday, April 6 By Amanda Decarreau Lent Devotional 2020 Let all the nations realize that you are the only God, that Jesus Christ is your Son,Īnd that we are your people and the sheep of your pasture. Turn back those of your people who stray We ask you, Master, be our helper and defender. Rest and receive in the prayer attributed to Clement of Rome (35-99). What difference is God making in your house and in your heart in this season?.How are you seeing and sensing your house becoming a house of prayer?.What’s changed in the way you think about church?.Your house is becoming a house of prayer. God is being glorified as husbands and wives and kids and neighbors and life groups and DMD groups and Men’s groups and women’s groups and 20 Something’s groups are gathering in new ways, smiling, laughing, blessing, learning, loving and praying. In a season of fear and anxiety, conversations are happening pointing heavy hearts back to our Healer. Some are worshipping throughout the week, some are tuning in on Sunday’s at 9:15 or 11:00. Some are praying throughout the day, some are praying at 7:00 p.m. But it’s not happening in the church building that sits vacant. The banner outside Sanctuary says, “We are praying for you.” Some people look at it when they drive by, some people ignore it. “My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.” God’s little house on Mars Hill and Due West Road largely sits empty. Not only were the religious leaders robbing the people financially, but because of this they had also robbed them spiritually by stealing from them the opportunity to come to know God genuinely.” Thomas Constable notes, “In this statement, Jesus is speaking on two levels. Jesus is now in Passion Week, just days before His crucifixion, and he makes this same statement, and he makes it dramatically. Seven hundred years prior to the arrival of Christ, God spoke through the prophet Isaiah.Ī house of prayer for all nations.” – Isaiah 56.7 He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’” Matthew 21.12-13 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. Tuesday, April 7 By Amanda Decarreau Lent Devotional 2020
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