Amos - Week 3
Part 3: What God Wants
Israel was still devoutly religious, but God wasn’t impressed. Here’s why: He demands both justice and righteousness from His people. This means He wants both outward religious loyalty and morality and love for those on the bottom of society’s totem pole. All of us have a tendency to lean toward one or the other: Straight-laced, doctrinally correct moral living or self-sacrificial compassion toward the least of these. But God wants both.
Recent Messages
If we are the Temple where redemption happens, what is our plan to draw people to Him? The answer is to relearn an ancient, almost forgotten practice: Hospitality. In a time when loneliness is an epidemic, when few people know their neighbors, something as simple as a meal together can be the starting place for something beautiful to happen.
When our bond with God was severed by our sin, He didn’t give up on us. He made a second Eden, a place for us to meet with Him and be redeemed. That place was the Temple, and the events that happened there teach us about a God who is mighty to save, the cost of our sin, and His plans for us.