Know Him deeply. Surrender fully.
Carry His Gospel far.
Read Monday through Friday after each Sunday’s message. Open a day for its ESV reading, two questions, and a short prayer. Read on your own, around the table, or with someone you’re helping follow Jesus. Use the weekend to reflect or catch up.
Jesus is worthy of whatever following Him will cost us.
Before we consider where He is sending us, spend time with the One worth following.
Notice how the risen Jesus gathers His disciples, receives worship, and speaks with authority. The commission begins with the One giving it.
What does this passage reveal about Jesus before it tells His disciples what to do?
Which truth about Him do you need to carry into a difficult part of your life?
Jesus meets frightened disciples on the water. Watch His power, His response to Peter, and the worship that follows.
What do Jesus’ words and actions reveal about His identity and His care?
Where are you wavering, and how does this encounter give you reason to trust Him?
Jesus brings peace to fearful disciples and meets Thomas in his questions. John tells us why he recorded these signs.
How do Jesus’ wounds, words, and resurrection help you understand Thomas’s confession?
What question or fear can you bring honestly to Jesus as you learn to trust Him?
Read Daniel’s vision, then listen to Jesus before the council. Consider the weight of His claim even as He faces rejection.
What kind of authority and kingdom does the Son of Man receive in Daniel’s vision?
How does Jesus’ identity change the way you view opposition, uncertainty, or earthly power?
Slow down over who Jesus is, what He holds together, and how He reconciles His people through His death.
Which description of Jesus most enlarges your understanding of Him?
How does His greatness and reconciling love make Him worthy of your trust?
What have you seen about Jesus this week that makes you want to know Him more deeply?
The King we worship is the Lord we obey.
The Jesus we are coming to know claims our lives and deserves our trust. Surrender grows from His grace.
Paul connects baptism with Christ’s death and resurrection. Notice what God has done before considering the response He calls for.
What has union with Jesus changed about the believer’s relationship to sin?
What part of your life needs to be offered to God as belonging to Him?
Jesus loves the wealthy man and exposes a competing allegiance. Keep reading to hear what He says about God making salvation possible.
How do Jesus’ love and His costly invitation belong together?
What are you tempted to protect from His authority, and why is He worthy of your trust with it?
Peter resists Jesus’ announced suffering. Jesus then describes the cost and hope of following Him.
What does Jesus reveal about His own path before calling His followers to take up their crosses?
Where are your expectations resisting His clearly revealed teaching?
Jesus joins abiding, fruitfulness, love, and obedience. Our dependence on Him remains central to a fruitful life.
What does Jesus supply that His disciples cannot produce apart from Him?
What would dependent, loving obedience look like in one relationship today?
God’s mercies ground a whole-life response. Follow the passage from worship and renewed thinking into gifts, generosity, love, and costly relationships.
How does God’s mercy shape the surrender Paul describes?
Which instruction calls for a concrete yes from you, and how could it shape our church together?
Where have you begun to put your yes on the table? Share one step of obedience with someone who can walk with you.
The King who sends us goes with us.
Full surrender includes ownership of His mission. Explore how ordinary lives become available for people near and far to know Jesus.
Jesus gives His people a worldwide assignment, His promised presence, and the Spirit’s power for witness.
What does Jesus command, and what does He promise to supply?
Where have you treated His mission as someone else’s responsibility?
Scattered believers carry the word, and Philip proclaims Christ in Samaria. Watch the Gospel reach people beyond the disciples’ familiar circle.
What does this account show about Jesus’ mission advancing through His people?
Who is nearby but outside your usual circle because of relational or cultural distance?
Read about life together, households, work, prayer, and wise speech. Consider how obedience and Gospel opportunities meet in daily life.
How does belonging to the Lord shape both our conduct and our conversations?
In your home, work, business, or online relationships, who could you help come to know and follow Jesus?
The Spirit sets apart Barnabas and Saul, and the church releases them for His work. The mission soon encounters resistance.
Who initiates this sending, and how does the church participate?
How can you help carry the work of our overseas missionaries or support someone preparing to serve elsewhere?
Notice shared work, hospitality, teaching, opposition, and the Lord’s reassurance to Paul. Ordinary partnerships help the Gospel travel.
How does the Lord sustain Paul, and how do Priscilla and Aquila help others grow?
What might faithful participation look like for you in Yankton, another town, or farther away? Who could walk with you?
Who is within your reach? What boundary must you cross? What is your next yes? Pray for Yankton, our surrounding towns, and our overseas missionaries.
May we be people who know Him deeply, surrender fully, and carry His Gospel far. Ask Jesus how your next yes could help someone else come to know Him.
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