Since 2012, She Reads Truth has maintained a singular mission: to be women in the Word of God every day. Ten years later, our community includes “Shes” from across the globe, but our mission hasn’t changed.
Reading Scripture together is the centerpiece of what we do at She Reads Truth. As we spend time as a community reading This Is The Church, we encourage you to start by reading the daily Scripture on your own. Then join us here to engage and encourage one another as we respond to what we’ve read. Each day for this series, we’ll include a brief summary of the reading along with a prompt for conversation.
Jesus, in His own baptism, demonstrates the new life accomplished for us in His death and resurrection. Baptism is an external sign belonging to the people of God.
Discussion Question: What attributes of God do you notice in today’s reading?
Take time to reflect on your Scripture reading and today’s question. Share what you are learning with others in the community in the comments.
We see throughout these passages we have a gracious and grace filled God. He doesn’t give grace so that we’ll continue sinning but in order to draw us to Himself. He doesn’t sit waiting to condemn us but He waits for us to repent and turn from our sin.
God wants us to join Him. He waits patiently for us to see that He is the way, the truth, and the life.
God is merciful and willing to forgive
Sometimes people use the premise of God’s forgiveness to conclude that believers can go on knowingly sinning because God is going to forgive them anyways and as Paul says, they claim this just creates more opportunity for God’s grace. But Paul points out that we have died to sin so we can’t still live in it. Not because we’ll never sin, we are obviously still sinners, but if we are truly seeking God we repent when we sin. We try to become more like him as we grow closer to him. We are born of the Spirit. We are not literally born a second time, but we have a spiritual rebirth. Baptism is a physical representation of that.
Amen
“We have all come through the water….meant to unite us.” I love, loved the podcast and the dovetail this week to the study this week!!
Thank you for asking the hard questions. Even as a woman of Faith I often struggle explaining why things were done as they were. I try to circle back that I am also not to judge. And what one does, agree or don’t agree is on them, they are accountable for their actions. I am here to love and show grace as Jesus did and does.
How are you doing Traci? What and how can we pray for you? Sending love and blessings x