Acts: The Spread of the Gospel

This study is taken from John MacArthur's "Acts: The Spread of the Gospel." My prayer and goal for this devo is that we will learn more about how the early church laid the foundation for what we possess today, and that we would allow God to use us to turn our world upside for Him!

This will be an exciting journey, so encourage others to join you! I'm looking forward to the interaction we will have on this blog as we study the book of Acts!

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Chapter Three - The Reality of the Father's Sovereignty - Devo for 11/11/08

Reading
Romans 8:22-23; 2 Corinthians 5:4

Questions
1. According to these verses, in today's language, what longing do believers naturally have?
2. Actually, even unbelievers have a desire to better themselves, to be perfected. How do people who don't know Christ (or even many who do know Christ) attempt to better/perfect themselves in their own power?
3. What "incompleteness" do you experience in life that causes you to "groan" in the sense of Romans 8:22-23 & 2 Corinthians 5:4?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

1. They are waiting for God to come and redeem us.

2. They give money to the poor, perform good deeds and try to be "good."

3. I feel anxiety and sadness when I see the way the world is living. I feel like something needs to be done and hope that day will come in which God will clean this world of all sin and destroy all the evil in this earth.

Anonymous said...

1. they are waiting for God to come.
2. by doing good things
3. sadness

Anonymous said...

1. they are waiting for God return.
2. they do good deeds to cover up the bad stuff they did.
3. saddness because i see how unbelievers act trying to better themselves.

Anonymous said...

questions:

1.they are waitong for God to come and relieve them of their pain and take them home to Him.

2.well, some try to obey and be a hard worker and be respectful and make right descisions.

3.we are waiting for this pain to be over, we want to be with God and not have to go through hard times.