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What if Lent Could Rekindle Your Faith? Exploring the Kerygma
Life can take us on unexpected paths, and sometimes our faith journey can feel like it’s taken a detour. If you’ve found yourself distant from your faith, or if you’re simply curious about exploring it again, this Lenten season offers a gentle invitation to reconnect. These daily reflections focus on the Kerygma, the core message of Christianity – a message of love, hope, and new beginnings. We’ll be exploring eight key “Acts” of God’s story, from creation to our present call to partnership with Him. There’s no pressure, no judgment, just an invitation to consider a different perspective and perhaps rediscover a connection you thought was lost.
Act 7 of the Kerygma: The Invitation and the Choice
“While God extends a loving invitation to all, the ultimate decision to respond rests with each individual. We are free to choose to accept or reject God’s love. This choice has eternal consequences. By choosing to follow God, we embrace life in abundance, while choosing to reject him leads to separation and ultimately, death.”
“Not Conformed, But Transformed”
Romans 12:1-2
I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship.
Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect.
Reflection
There is a quiet but powerful invitation in this passage: to become a living offering. Not a sacrifice of death, but of life — your life, made holy through surrender. This is what Jesus desires: not just belief from afar, but relationship so close, so intimate, that every part of you becomes worship.
In this act of the Kerygma, we hear God’s loving voice, calling us into a response — not out of obligation, but out of love. The same God who created you, pursued you, saved you, now invites you to give yourself back to Him, freely and fully. And when you do, He doesn’t leave you unchanged. He renews your mind. He transforms your heart. He reveals His will — not as a burden, but as the beautiful path toward peace, purpose, and joy.
Lent is a season for offering — of time, of heart, of self. It is also a season of becoming. As we say yes to Jesus, we are shaped by His love. We begin to see the world differently, to desire what is holy, to trust that giving ourselves over to Him is not loss, but gain. This is not the pattern of the world. But it is the pattern of grace.
Today, listen closely. Jesus is inviting you — not to strive, but to surrender. Not to earn, but to offer. In your offering, He will make you new.
Prayer
Jesus, I offer myself to You — all that I am and all that I am becoming. Renew my mind, transform my heart, and lead me to what is good and pleasing in Your sight. I want to live as a gift to You, a living sacrifice of love.
Action
Choose one part of your daily routine today — your work, your meal, your rest — and consciously offer it to God as an act of worship. Say aloud or in your heart: “Lord, I offer this to You. Make it holy.”
The Kerygma
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Sharing
Jesus last words on Earth were to his disciples, can be found in Matthew Chap 28 when Jesus told his disciples, “Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”
Jesus calls all of us to share in his redemptive mission here on Earth. I would ask you to share this Scripture reflection with your family, your friends and your acquaintances, and then share it with a couple of individuals that you may may not be comfortable sharing with, keeping in mind always the words of Jesus, And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age
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