Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast

with your host, Emma Daughter. Thanks for joining. Today, we're joined by a special guest, Ellie Blocker.

Hi, it's so great to be here. I'm so glad to have you. So fun fact, for the listeners who don't know,

Watermark's high school ministry, Shoreline,

is going through, join the journey as their small group curriculum this year. And tonight,

hundreds of high school students are meeting in homes all over the city, opening up God's

word. And today, we're in 2nd Corinthians 3. So Ellie's here because she's a student. And in a second she's going to share about 2 Corinthians 3. But Ellie's here because she's a student and in a second she's going to share

about 2nd Corinthians 3. But Ellie, we just met today. Tell us a little bit about yourself.

Who are you? What do you up to? All the things. I am a senior in high school and I've been here

at Watermark since I was in kindergarten in 2008 with my whole family. We moved here.

And I've been serving here in starting blocks with the preschool age kids, four and five, for about four years. And it's been really awesome.

So cool. I texted you a few weeks ago, said, hey, Second Corinthians three. Tell us, hey, what's it all about? What do you see in this chapter?

Yeah, so there's two separate parts that stood out to me. It kind of starts, Paul is writing a letter

to the people of Corinth, and it starts with him talking about how his letters are not of his own

merit, or they're not his own thoughts or beliefs. They're all

God-breathed. And everything that he has been writing to them is just from the Holy Spirit

because he wants them to know that everything he's saying to them is just a message from God,

and he's the messenger and not the author. So that's kind of his preface to the chapter. And then the second

part, he goes into talking about the old covenant of God between God and Israel and then the new

covenant that replaces the old covenant when Jesus comes in. So he sets kind of the old covenant up

as it's a covenant that reveals man's sinfulness and our brokenness.

And because of our brokenness, we deserve death because God's glory is just too powerful

...