This week we will take a trip through a passage in 2 Corinthians that we have long held is the least known, most necessary passage in all of scripture for living the daily Christian life. And if it is the least known but most necessary, that would mean a lot of people are living a sort of truncated experience of the Christian life — ourselves included, when we forget, which is often.

2 Corinthians 2:12 – 4:12

This passage talks about freedom (“For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom” 3:17), transparency (“But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away” 3:16), sincerity and power (“We preach the word of God with sincerity and with Christ’s authority” 2:17), effectiveness (“He uses us to spread the knowledge of Christ everywhere, like a sweet perfume” 2:14), confidence (“Since this new way gives us such confidence, we can be very bold” 3:12), with light shining through our frailty (“We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure” 4:7), and with an indestructible nature (“We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed” 4:9). And that is just the start. Not even a complete list.

This is why we return repeatedly to this passage, because it tells us of a different way to live — a way that is contrary to our nature — a way that goes against how we have been trained all our lives by our upbringing and the ways of the culture we inhabit. Because of this, it is easy to slip back, even after having grasped the new way; the old way still holds power over us.

So that is why we return to focus once again on the freeing, transforming power of the New Covenant. Don’t miss an episode as we unlock the power through the Daily Catch and our podcast, Between the Answers with John and Marti Fischer.