Our readings in this series are from the book, Such a Great Salvation. Here is a brief excerpt from pages 71, 72:
“We need to think more ‘savingly’ about the places we go each week. Together, these constitute the sphere appointed by God to us, where He expects us to bring the salt, light, and leaven of our great salvation to bear on anything and everything that needs some shoring-up for good.
“What does excellence in all things require of us in these places? How can we bring the joy of our great salvation into the merely mundane, ordinary, soulless world of the places we go to each week? How can the hope that is within us—of knowing God in His glory and showing that glory to the world – radiate from within us into the places we go, putting those places on notice that a new world is coming, and we are its avant-garde?
“The place to begin impacting the places of our sphere with the reality of the Kingdom not of this world, is in prayer, and in the Word of God, searching the Scriptures and listening for the Lord to show us how we, like Jesus and Paul, can bring the light of the Kingdom to shine wherever any lingering darkness of sin continues within the places of our world.
“You are sent to the world as Jesus was, to bring near the Kingdom of God. Identify the places the Lord has sent you. Offer them up to Him, like John Knox, praying, ‘Lord, give me Scotland, or I die!’ Then gear-up for the daily challenge of working out your great salvation in the places of your sphere, bringing the joy of Christ and His Kingdom to your world with ever-increasing glory.”
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T. M. Moore
