Day 38 4/29

I am focusing again today on the exercises in Living By the Book Ch.15 Read Purposefully. I am reading the purpose statement passages given from Scripture and then determining the author's purpose in my own words and then investigating how he communicates that to the audience (types of structure, repetition, etc.). There are 10 of them.

#7   2 Corinthians 1:8; 13:1-10 

I read from my NASB study Bible today to change things up a bit and after reading over the purpose passages several times, several purposes came to mind that it seems like Paul was trying to communicate to his audience: the church in Corinth and of course everyone who would read the Word...

Awareness of what he went through to deepen our affirmation in our own faith

Empower us to not just take Paul's word for it, but to find out for ourselves that Jesus Christ     

         is in us

Warning of consequences, specifically for the church in Corinth, for not carrying out their  

        faith

After skimming through the book focusing on how I think Paul communicated his purpose to his audience, I noticed he used narrative/biography, ideological structure, and a lot of teaching and instruction. There are many other ways I'm sure, but these stuck out right away.

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Some of my prayers today...

- thankful for my mom and how close we are and how close she lives to me

- praise for my husband who works so hard every day to provide for us

- praise for my beautiful, full of life children who wake up everyday with smiles ready to explore their world 

- prayers for me to be an intentional mom who is loving, patient, confident, fun, who lives in the moment not focusing on what needs to get done

- praise for a beautiful display of love at the royal wedding, every little girls dream played out on TV :) 

- prayers for protection while traveling to and from sorority sister's wedding