Reading Plan Launch

Welcome
Welcome to the starting line of the Resistance Reading Plan!  This reading plan is designed to partner with Compassion Christian Church’s sermon series of the same name. This series will explore how the lies of the secular world can harm us, especially our mental health, but there are ways to resist those lies and find the abundant life that God wants for us.  The reading plan will focus on the same things by guiding us through Scripture that speaks to those truths.

Christianity is unique from any other major world religion in many ways, but one of the most profound and beautiful things that followers of Jesus believe is that through the work of Jesus we have been brought back into a relationship with the Father.  Colossians 1:21-22 says it this way: “You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions.  Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body.  As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.” We don’t need priests or rituals between us and a holy God.  We have been brought into his presence.  Through His Word our God speaks to us and through prayer we speak back, allowing us to have a personal relationship with our Heavenly Father.  May the truth of these things help you engage with this plan with wonder and joy!

Before We Start
The first week of this reading plan will focus on the Book of 1st Peter.  We recommend you watch the video below to help you understand what the Book of 1st Peter is, who wrote it, and why they wrote it.  Knowing those things will help us better understand the context in which the book was written, which will help us understand what God wants to say to us today.
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