A new kind of temple
People from far away will come and build the Lord’s temple... ~ Zechariah 6:15a (CEB)
Christ is building you into a place where God lives through the Spirit. ~ Ephesians 2:22 (CEB)
KEY THOUGHT:
Christ is building us all, people from across the world, into a new temple -- a dwelling for himself.
PRAYER:
God, everytime I become anxious about the problems of the world, I thank you for coming here to set things right. Toward that end you've called us together to be a diverse community faithful to the presence of Christ. Sometimes, though, we, including me, are a part of the problem. We're eager to build temples to honor ourselves. So help us to recapture our purpose. I'm going to become a block in the life changing temple you're building. Amen.
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2015 I started posting these Bible verses for my spiritual formation students at Pacific Islands University. In the process of responding to the verses, I found the rhythm of looking for a common thread and writing a prayer based on that key idea to be helpful for my own soul. The prayers are more or less modeled on the TRIP method, which is what I ask my students to do in their journaling. ~ Brad Boydston
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase -- a freestyle biblical adaptation -- somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
