Community Development — lit windows across a small town at first light, the houses waking one by one

All things newRevelation 21Length: Long

Eat

Read the passage slowly, read it again, then retell it in your own words. If you can't retell it, read it once more.

  • Read
  • Reread
  • Retell

Digest

Answer from what the passage actually says — stay in the text.

  1. What does this passage show me about God?

    • Where does God live in this passage, and what does he say he is doing with all things?
  2. What does it show me about people — and about myself?

    • What does it change for you that the end of the story is a city, with people in it, rather than an escape from the world?
  3. What will I obey this week? (a concrete step, with a day)

    • What is one thing you will do this week that fits the world God has promised rather than the one you see?
  4. Who will I tell?

    • Who around you has given up on this place ever changing, and could hear this?

Grow

Growth is God's part, not yours. Do the cycle faithfully and trust Him to give the growth (1 Corinthians 3:6–7).

Pray

God, you are not repairing this world from a distance — you come to live in it. Make us people who work now for what you have already promised to finish.