Better Together in Christ | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | July 14, 2024
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🗓️ 14 July 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:09.5 | Our reading titled Better Together in Christ was written by Patricia Raybon. |
| 0:16.7 | Dr. Tiffany Golson had seen crime impact her small American city of East St. Louis, Missouri in many ways. |
| 0:26.8 | By 2023, however, the town recorded a 31% drop in homicides and a 37% drop in crime overall. |
| 0:38.2 | What happened? |
| 0:39.8 | A partnership. |
| 0:41.8 | Working together, the city's public safety enforcement group, |
| 0:45.9 | including the state and city police, |
| 0:48.4 | the city school district, |
| 0:50.1 | and a faith organization, |
| 0:52.3 | combined efforts to turn the tide for all citizens. |
| 0:56.5 | We say it's a marriage, Dr. Golson stated, |
| 1:00.2 | with all members of the city partnership joining in to help citizens. |
| 1:06.1 | The school district's Rapparound Wellness Center, which she leads, involves school social workers, nurses, |
| 1:14.6 | and staff to support kids impacted by crime or accidents. Other agencies share their strengths. |
| 1:23.5 | Police commit to talk more with people on the street and listen. |
| 1:32.1 | In Psalm 133, the psalmist David wrote, |
| 1:38.1 | how good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity. |
| 1:47.8 | Harmony, David added, is as refreshing as the dew from Mount Herman. David was referring to people who share a unifying faith in God. Rather than divided by doctrines or politics, we are one. The concept may |
| 1:58.2 | feel elusive, yet it blesses all. |
| 2:02.4 | It's a beautiful goal for believers to show concern for one another, |
| 2:06.7 | especially in our cities desperately in need of the love of Jesus. |
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