PCC Daily Devotionals

Friday, September 20, 2024

What would be some differences between Paul’s strict Jewish culture and the Greek Athenian culture?

How did Paul overcome those cultural differences to find common ground? How can you learn from this?

Who in your life has a different worldview? How can you apply this principle in sharing the gospel with them?

Read: 1 Corinthians 8:1, John 9:1-38

What does it mean that knowledge puffs up but love builds up? How have you seen that in your life?

How can knowledge actually be a roadblock to sharing the gospel? How can a changed life open doors?

What is your testimony? Have you written out how God changed your life? Will you do it? Will you share it?

Jesus commanded to love as he loved and bear fruit. What does that mean? Are you living that out?

Why is it important to love sacrificially? How does that protect from a comfortable level of love that costs nothing?

If you truly love sacrificially, what will your love for others look like? How does that relate to sharing the gospel?

Why is love such a constant theme of the Bible? How does that differentiate Christianity from other worldviews?

How do you show love to those around you? Is it easier for you to love God or to love people? Why is that?

Why does the passage in 1 John say that if we don’t love we don’t know God? How do we learn to love?

Read: Ephesians 3:14-20

What has helped you the most to experience the fullness of God? What things hamper or hinder that experience?

Why is it important to experience, not just understand, the love of Christ that surpasses all knowledge?

For what purpose would God want you to fully experience him? How can you step into that experience fully?

Based on these two passages, what is the desire of God for the world? Who will carry out that goal and plan?

Do you personally take responsibility to fulfill the great commission of Jesus to go and make disciples? How?

What are the action words in these passages? How are you engaging in them? What can you do to engage?

Reflection Questions – Take Time Today to Rest + Reflect + Seek Him

Where in your life has God grown your faith in His truth and promises?

What areas in your life do you feel your faith is often tested?

What would it look like for you to operate with greater faith this week?