You are invited to join in a 30-day exploration of the life-transforming, world-changing truth about reconciliation. Starting October 5 thousands of people from dozens of countries will join Elmbrook Church in this daily learning experience and conversation.
“To ‘reconcile’ or bring about ‘reconciliation’ is to restore harmony or friendship between two entities formerly divided” (Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible).
There is no debate about this: our world is broken.
Relationships in families and friendships are strained. The nations never get past conflict and war. Society is divided. Racial tensions stubbornly hang on. The human psyche itself is fractured. And our connection with God is at risk.
That is why God did what only God could do. In Jesus the Christ God made forgiveness and restoration possible. This is God’s great work of reconciliation. His way of gracing us with harmony again.
This, then, is the mission and the ministry of those who follow Jesus. To be reconciled with God, and then seek reconciliation with each other, and between groups of people. It is challenging and difficult. But it is the will of God and the mandate for the church.
Reconcile: this is what Christ has done; it is what we must do.
This 30-day devotional going from Genesis to Revelation unpacks the way real reconciliation is possible. It also includes real-life stories, prayers, song lyrics, and other features that will help us mediate deeply on the truth of reconciliation. The truth of reconciliation takes us down many paths: forgiveness, male-female relationships, racial antipathy, social tensions, church unity, just to name a few. It takes courage and faith to be people of reconciliation, but it is possible because God began the work, and has called us to this ministry and mission.
Get the 30-day devotional in your inbox by signing up HERE. (If you attend Elmbrook Church, pick up your free paperback copy at worship this weekend.)
“And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.” (2 Cor. 5:19-20).
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I think that this will be both exciting and challenging. I look forward to it.
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I believe this will be invaluable to any believer, and I look forward to sharing it with my 5th grade catechist class.
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Even being a brasilian person and living in distant place from Elmbrook Church I would like to be blessed through “Reconcile a 30-day-devotional What Christ has done. What we must do”. Thank you for the opportunity.”