Paul's Particular Set Of Skills

March 22nd, 2026

Memory Verse: ' Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. '

Psalm 51:10

Sermon Sentence: You have a calling on your life and you are equipped for that calling by God.

A Note For This Week's Devotions:

Pastor Nate: For me personally, when I started being a part of D-Groups, it frustrated me that they were so successful and that the people attending them were raving so much about how they had helped them. When I asked Brandon Miller, the coordinator of D-Groups, why they seemed so much more impactful than our regular groups that I had just spent years trying to get people to attend, he had a theory. He said, “In Groups, we come to the table and hope to get something. In D-Groups, we are preparing all week and show up at that table with something to give also.” I think that statement is the key to taking Keystone Church to where it needs to be to make disciples effectively for generations to come.

One of the keys to the differences in D-Groups is how we read the Bible. Brandon’s system of assigned reading has us reading only 3 chapters a week. Each chapter is read three times in one day. So Monday would be chapter 1, but three times, Tuesday would be chapter 2, but three times, and Wednesday would be chapter 3, but three times. Then on Thursday through Saturday, we would read chapters 1, 2, and 3 once. I have heard many people talk about the benefit that this brings to being able to understand a passage. For me, the first time gets my mind to wake up to what I am reading and I don’t get much out of the first pass. The second time, I slow down and process it a bit better. Then the third time, I seem to find things I didn’t see any of the other times I read it.

I want to show you how beneficial this system of reading is as we kick off this sermon series in 1 Corinthians. So this week, we will be reading the first 3 chapters of 1 Corinthians in this method. We will return to the format we usually use next week, but this is a way I can introduce you to what it is like to be a part of D-Groups. This is just one of the reasons these groups have helped so many people recently!