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DAY 7: Saturday, June 28, 2025
MESSAGE TITLE:
Living Epistles – Becoming the Gospel People Can Read
SCRIPTURE TEXT:
Vs 2.”Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:… declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.”
2 Corinthians 3:2-3 (KJV)
The Message (MSG)
“Your very lives are a letter that anyone can read just by looking at you.
Christ himself wrote it-not with ink, but with God’s living Spirit; not chiseled into stone, but carved into human lives-and we publish it”.
BY: EFFIONG ETOK
Carrier of God’s Word
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Someone may never open a Bible, but they will open your life. What gospel will they find written there?
MAIN MESSAGE.
Beloved, Heaven never intended Scripture to stay trapped on thin pages. “Let your light so shine before men” that they meet Christ in our choices, not only in our choruses (Matthew 5:16). When Dorcas stitched garments for widows, her kindness became a chapter of the gospel in Joppa (Acts 9:36–39). Peter and John spoke with boldness, yet the crowd first saw that they “had been with Jesus” (Acts 4:13).
A colleague once whispered, “I don’t believe in church, but I believe what I see in you.” That single sentence shook me.
No pulpit. No microphone-just Monday‐to‐Friday faith silently carving Christ into the hearts of those watching.
Child of God, the loudest sermon we will ever preach is the way we live when no one says “Amen.”
We quote verses, yet envy can still flicker in our eyes when others rise. We lead prayers, yet pride can whisper louder than our tongues. We serve in the open, but lust can still crouch in the private corners of our hearts. Paul calls us “open letters,” written not with ink but “by the Spirit of the living God” (2 Corinthians 3:3). The Spirit longs to etch humility where arrogance once lived, purity where secret indulgence once hid.
Let this settle in your heart: every reaction is a sentence, every sacrifice a paragraph, every act of compassion an exclamation proclaiming “Christ lives here.” Even in the furnace of delay, criticism, or betrayal, our response can reveal a Savior who still washes feet.
We are being read in hospital corridors, market queues, family group chats. May the story they read lead them to the cross-not away from it.
REFLECTIVE QUESTIONS
1. What chapter of Christ’s love would someone read if they followed you for a day?
2. Where do your private attitudes contradict the public gospel you profess?
TAKEAWAY STATEMENT
Today, let us live so loudly for Jesus that even the skeptic can trace the fingerprints of God across our ordinary moments.
PRAYER POINTS.
1. Father, engrave humility, purity, and compassion on my heart. Where anger, pride, or hidden sin smears the gospel in me, cleanse and rewrite my story with Your mercy until my life preaches Christ without a word. In Jesus’ Mighty Name, Amen!
2. Spirit of the living God, make me a clear, shining letter that draws souls to Your saving love. Let every thought, word, and action reflect Your presence, and may my daily conduct become a testimony that leads others to the cross. In Jesus’ Mighty Name, Amen!
