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    Counter Culture Scripture and Prayer Guide
    Counter Culture Scripture and Prayer Guide
    Counter Culture Scripture and Prayer Guide
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    Counter Culture Scripture and Prayer Guide

    By David Platt and Dave Burnette

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    Welcome to the front lines. Everywhere we turn, battle lines are being drawn—traditional marriage vs. gay marriage, pro-life vs. pro-choice, personal freedom vs. governmental protection. Seemingly overnight, culture has shifted to the point where right and wrong are no longer measured by universal truth but by popular opinion. And as difficult conversations about homosexuality, abortion, and religious liberty continue to inject themselves into our workplaces, our churches, our schools, and our homes, Christians everywhere are asking the same question: How are we supposed to respond?

    Let David Platt, in the Counter Culture Scripture and Prayer Guide, take you on a thirty-one-day tour of the pressing issues of our day and how Christ would have us respond to them. This guide includes instructions on how to lead a month-long group discussion about these issues, as well as thirty individual daily Bible readings. Don’t let the winds of this culture push you and your family around. Throughout the next thirty-one days, take time to build your life on the truth of God’s Word.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTyndale House Publishers
    Release dateFeb 7, 2017
    ISBN9781496422781
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      Counter Culture Scripture and Prayer Guide - David Platt

      DAY

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      LOOKING TO A SOVEREIGN GOD

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      NGAGING CULTURE STARTS

      with looking to and trusting in the God who is sovereign over culture. We need his grace, his wisdom, and his power at work within us if we are to speak and act in a way that bears witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is this God-centered and God-exalting posture that will keep us from despair on the one hand and self-reliance on the other. As Christians we must be confident in God.

      We know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

      ROMANS 8:28

      [God’s] dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation; all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, What have you done?

      DANIEL 4:34-35

      Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.

      JUDE 1:24-25

      Responding in Prayer

      Praise God for his sovereignty over all things and people. Express your trust in his power and wisdom.

      Pray that God would give you confidence in his promises. Ask him to give you faith and hope as you seek to follow Christ.

      Pray that your church would depend fully on God and the power of the gospel as you speak to various issues in your own community.

      The Gospel. I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes. Romans 1:16

      IF WE BELIEVE that the gospel is truly the lifeblood of Christianity and the foundation for countering culture, then we ought to meditate on it regularly. Christ lived a life of sinless obedience, the life that God requires of us; Christ died on the cross to pay the penalty for our sin; Christ rose from the grave, thereby conquering sin and death; all who repent of their sins and believe in this Christ receive the forgiveness of sins and the free gift of eternal life. That’s good news.

      The gospel is the foundation for our faith and for our witness to a dark and dying world. We must not leave it behind, as if we can follow Christ in our own strength. And we must not think that the unbelieving world around us will experience real and lasting change through our own courage, compassion, and conviction. No, it’s the gospel that saves and transforms people, and it’s the gospel that compels us to speak out when we see injustice, to stand up for those who are afflicted, and to hold fast to the truths of God’s Word in the face of opposition. This gospel is the very message that unreached peoples from across the globe so desperately need to hear. The gospel is worthy of our continual reflection and worthy of our lives.

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      HUMBLING OURSELVES BEFORE GOD

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      HE FIRST STEP

      in addressing the sins and needs around us is to confess that we are sinful and needy. Our role is not to save culture, for "salvation belongs to the L

      ORD

      " (Jonah 2:9). We need the same Christ that we proclaim to our unbelieving neighbors. Being used by God begins with being forgiven and cleansed by God.

      God is near to the brokenhearted (Psalm 34:18), and he promises to forgive those who confess their sins (see 1 John 1:9). Followers of Christ ought to confess their sins to God and ask him to strengthen them to be obedient. This kind of humility is pleasing to God and it prepares us to be used by him.

      Let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.

      1 CORINTHIANS 10:12

      Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse

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