Neal preached a lesson recently called “Seeing God’s Rich Blessings in the Church I Love.” It was beautiful, and I’m going to share his points here for this week’s reason to love the church. He shared one major theme blessing from each epistle in the New Testament, for a total of 21 blessings! If you like to write in your Bible, you could list each of these blessings under the epistle titles.

• Romans- being right with God (1:14-17)
• 1 Corinthians- unity (1:10-13)
• 2 Corinthians- comfort (1:3-7)
• Galatians- freedom (5:1-13)
• Ephesians- the love of God (3:14-21)
• Philippians- joy (2:1-4)
• Colossians- hope (1:25-27)
• 1 Thessalonians- prayer (3:9-13)
• 2 Thessalonians- endurance (1:1-2)
• 1 Timothy- pattern (3:15)
• 2 Timothy- boldness (1:7-18)
• Titus- grace (2:11-14)
• Philemon- providence (v. 15)
• Hebrews- covenant (8:6-7)
• James- wisdom (3:17)
• 1 Peter- resurrection (4:1)
• 2 Peter- knowledge (1:1-8)
• 1 John- brotherly love (4:7-21)
• 2 John- truth, as a command (v. 1-4)
• 3 John- truth, the examples (v. 1-15)
• Jude- divine power (v. 24-25)

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.”

(Eph. 1:3)