WHAT ABOUT GRAY AREAS (20 OF 40)
by Jeff Schreve
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 8:1-13
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What about Gray Areas (20 of 40)
Series: 1 Corinthians - And You Think You've Got Problems
Jeff Schreve
1 Corinthians 8:1-13
If you have your Bible, turn to 1st Corinthians chapter 8. We're in a series on the Book of 1st Corinthians. We're just marching through a verse at a time. And today, we're going to walk through chapter 8. And chapter 8 is a chapter that deals with gray areas.
Now in Corinth, they had written to Paul and gotten word to Paul and they had questions about things. In chapter 7 they asked him about marriage and divorce. And he said to him, ''Now concerning the things about which you wrote,'' and he went into a long discussion in chapter 7 about marriage, about divorce, about being single. And then, in chapter 8 he goes into a discussion about this issue: Things sacrificed to idols. They were asking questions about things sacrificed to idols. Now we would read that and we'd say, ''Well, that has no bearing on our lives today. If you went to Albertson's or Super One and bought some meat, you probably weren't worried, was this sacrificed to an idol? But in their day they were concerned about things sacrificed to idols. So what is the correlation between things sacrificed to idols and how we live today? It has to do with gray areas. A gray area is that which is not black and it's not white; it's in the middle. And, you know, the Bible, it doesn't say everything about every subject. There are certain gray areas that people try and put their stamp on and say, ''Well, this gray area, this is black, or this is white.'' And churches have struggled with that for years and years and years.
For instance, some gray areas: Smoking. Is smoking wrong? Some churches will tell you smoking is wrong. And I pastored a church, the very first church I ever pastored; it was in North Carolina, tobacco country. And they had a picture on the back of the church, on the bulletin board of the church. One of the deacons, he was smoking a cigar. They didn't think ...
Series: 1 Corinthians - And You Think You've Got Problems
Jeff Schreve
1 Corinthians 8:1-13
If you have your Bible, turn to 1st Corinthians chapter 8. We're in a series on the Book of 1st Corinthians. We're just marching through a verse at a time. And today, we're going to walk through chapter 8. And chapter 8 is a chapter that deals with gray areas.
Now in Corinth, they had written to Paul and gotten word to Paul and they had questions about things. In chapter 7 they asked him about marriage and divorce. And he said to him, ''Now concerning the things about which you wrote,'' and he went into a long discussion in chapter 7 about marriage, about divorce, about being single. And then, in chapter 8 he goes into a discussion about this issue: Things sacrificed to idols. They were asking questions about things sacrificed to idols. Now we would read that and we'd say, ''Well, that has no bearing on our lives today. If you went to Albertson's or Super One and bought some meat, you probably weren't worried, was this sacrificed to an idol? But in their day they were concerned about things sacrificed to idols. So what is the correlation between things sacrificed to idols and how we live today? It has to do with gray areas. A gray area is that which is not black and it's not white; it's in the middle. And, you know, the Bible, it doesn't say everything about every subject. There are certain gray areas that people try and put their stamp on and say, ''Well, this gray area, this is black, or this is white.'' And churches have struggled with that for years and years and years.
For instance, some gray areas: Smoking. Is smoking wrong? Some churches will tell you smoking is wrong. And I pastored a church, the very first church I ever pastored; it was in North Carolina, tobacco country. And they had a picture on the back of the church, on the bulletin board of the church. One of the deacons, he was smoking a cigar. They didn't think ...
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