The best and most accurate way to describe the story in Mark 10:17-31 is that it is a story about a man who was but one step away from a personal and eternal relationship with God. Jesus showed him the step to be taken, and Jesus invited him it. It was a step of surrender. The object to be surrendered – in this case money - is not as important as the act of surrender. Join your GCC family this weekend as we unpack a sometimes hard to understand encounter between a rich man and Jesus. Join us as we learn how that encounter makes an eternal difference in our lives – rich or not! Surrender is a step every one of us must make to follow Jesus!
Join your GCC family this weekend as we continue to study the incredible letter to which we were introduced last weekend – Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. We learned that the Apostle Paul wrote this letter to Christians who were living in a culture of unbridled materialism and rampant immorality where money, sex and power dominated life.
But while they lived in Ephesus, they also lived in Christ. They were saved and set apart to live faithful lives in Christ. So, after greeting the Ephesian believers, Paul summons them to all-out praise toward God because God deserves their praise and our praise. Why? Because of what He’s done for us in Christ. This call to all-out praise is found in Ephesians 1:3-14 and, in these verses, we will make some exciting discoveries!
