2 Corinthians 8:8-15, "The Sincerity of Love" - a podcast by Benjamin Glaser

This week we heard once more from the pen of the Apostle Paul as he wrote to the Corinthian Church. One of the problems they faced was that after Paul had wrote to them in his first letter about supporting their brothers and sisters in Jerusalem their excitement quickly dwindled into apathy. So in this exhortation the Apostle wants to encourage them to remember how their Macedonian friends were able to keep up the work, not by being Macedonians or through something special in their character, but by their simple faith in the risen Christ. In other words by making use of the means of grace: regular, weekly worship attendance, praying together as a body, and studying the Word of God together, they were able to stay strong and fast in obedience. This was because they did not see that obedience as a duty, or something they "had to do", rather as a thankful response to the example set by the Lord Jesus.

So often we make the Christian life so much more difficult than it needs to be. By resting and trusting in the basics we can do mighty things for God. It is when we reach for the food of the flesh and the water of the world that we fall and backslide into an inability to heed the call of God on our lives. 

We welcome you to join with us at Bethany as we make use of these ordinary means of grace through prayer on Wednesday nights at 6:30pm (starting in August), studying God's Word on Sunday nights at 5:00pm, and worshiping together on Sunday mornings at 11:00am.

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