Everyone A Witness
An African Equator Crossing (1|2)
Crossing the Line
Pages 79-84
TOGETHER read the book and the scripture.
END READING AT: There are after all lots of different points and ways you can cross the equator.
INDIVIDUALLY take notes in your journal on what stands out.
Romans 6:19-23 (NIV) I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
TOGETHER pray for one another.
INDIVIDUALLY answer the questions in your journal - process your notes and pray.
How would you tell your story of crossing the line?
(using the 6-word testimony tool as a map)
Spend some time giving thanks to God that you have come to know Him!
EXTRA READING:
“Indeed, obedience must be given with genuine good will, because God loves a cheerful giver. If obedience is given with a bad will and with murmuring not only in words but even in bitterness of heart, then even though the command may be externally fulfilled, it will not be accepted by God, for He can see the resistance in the heart of a murmurer. One who behaves in such a way not only fails to receive the reward of grace but actually incurs the punishment deserved by murmurers. Only repentance can save such a one from this punishment.”
- Benedict of Nursia (480 - 547)