Four passages and a short devotional a day to take you through the whole Bible in one year — right alongside your Spirit Church family.
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A man born blind meets Jesus, and the disciples want a theology seminar: who sinned, this man or his parents? Jesus refuses the blame question and reframes the man's whole life: this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.
Mud, washing, sight, and then a one-sentence testimony that has outlasted every interrogation since: one thing I do know. I was blind but now I see.
The healed man's theology was one sentence long, and it defeated the seminary: I was blind but now I see. Testimony does not require expertise; it requires a before and an after and the nerve to state them. The experts grew blinder with every question; the beggar saw more with every answer, until he was worshiping.
And note the last kindness: when religion expelled him, Jesus went and found him. He does that for people whose testimony costs them. Whatever your before-and-after is, addiction, despair, pride, unbelief, say it plainly to someone this week. The works of God are displayed in stories like yours.