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Devotion: Day by Day in 2016

Jason Hardin
01/17/16 - Sunday AM

Series: Day by Day

Day by day. That’s our congregational focus for 2016. To be “of Christ.” Every day. Everywhere. To follow in the footsteps of the earliest Christians—men and women whose lives were powerfully transformed (Acts 2:42-47).

We spent time last week studying where real transformation began and continues to unfold:

1. The Helper, the Holy Spirit, empowered the apostles of Jesus to be witnesses.
2. The aim of the Spirit’s coming and the apostles’ work was to convict the world concerning sin, righteousness, and judgment.
3. Men and women in need of salvation must come in contact with the good news of God’s grace.
4. The “dots” of God’s revelation to mankind are connected.
5. Jesus is proclaimed as the risen Lord and Christ.
6. In the hearts of those who are willing to meekly receive the implanted word, alienation from God leads to amazement leads to questions leads to realization leads to conviction.

Our ongoing mission—pointing hearts to this possibility with “the word of the cross” (1 Cor 1:18).

Taking the same blueprint to its next logical step, where does conviction lead?