ALL PEOPLES
The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
ISAIAH 56:7 (ABP)
My house will be the go-to place of worship for people from everywhere and every group.
COLOSSIANS 3:11 (NLT)
In this new life, it doesn’t matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized, slave, or free. Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
In the new social order that Christ is establishing all the old constructs are obsolete.
PRAYER
Thank you, God, for the new order that you are establishing in Christ. I admit that I still look at people in an outdated way. Help me to grow out of the old way of thinking. I'm eager to embrace all peoples through the grace of Christ. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own 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)
