Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it.

Hey friends, welcome back to Year in the Bible. I'm Alexa and I'm here with my co-host, Beth.

Hi, guys. This week, we have looked at Amos 9,

11 through 12, and Acts 15, 15 through 19. And we have learned that God's promised salvation

and restoration is made possible through Christ for all people. Now we want to end our time together

this week by talking about how we can practically apply these passages to our

everyday lives. So, Alexa, how do you plan on applying these passages?

I think something that I thought about this week is how we can make sure as followers of

Christ that we're not creating obstacles for people, especially those of different nationalities

to come to faith in Christ and know more about him.

We're not creating major obstacles by teaching people from different nations that they can't

come to Christ unless they do these certain things, but I do wonder if we can create little

obstacles without knowing it. This could maybe look like not making an effort to welcome people

of different nationalities who come into church on a Sunday morning or perhaps only inviting people into our home who look and talk like us.

It's really easy to kind of put ourselves in a bubble with only people we are comfortable with.

I know that I'm super prone to doing that, but the body of Christ isn't meant to look like just one type of people, and we're not meant to

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