Prayer: Help us to accept your gift, Lord. Amen
Reading: Romans 3:19-28 (Click to read text) Stop and GROW: After reading the text, discuss/ponder the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Book of Faith questions, which are part of Camp Mount Luther's GROW Time with campers. QUESTION 1: What scares, confuses, challenges, or doesn’t make sense to me in this text? QUESTION 2: What delights me in this text or is my favorite part of the story? QUESTION 3: What stories or memories does this text stir in me? QUESTION 4: What is God up to in this text? Reflection: This is the center of my faith. Just about everything for me revolves around these few words: All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; they are now justified by his grace as a gift. Gift. God’s gift. To me. You mean I don’t have to do anything? Yup. A gift is a gift. Often I connect this passage to John 1:16. (Not 3:16—1:16) From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. Not just grace, but grace heaped on grace. Grace and gift. That’s what life now and life to come is about. God’s grace. God’s gift. How can this be? All humans are justified by God’s grace. Life is a gift. I ask again, how can this be? Because that is the way God wants it. --Jim Bricker
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