IT'S COMPLICATED - SANCTIFYING RELATIONSHIP STATUS (10 OF 17)
by Ross Lester
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13
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It's Complicated - Sanctifying Relationship Status (10 of 17)
Series: Messy Grace
Ross Lester
1 Corinthians
Proposition Statement:
Christian Community is supposed to be family, who share communal devotion to Christ, regardless of people's relationship status.
Intro:
Sanibonani, Dumela, Howzit, Good to see you.
Happy Father's Day.
We are in 1 Corinthians 7 today:
Part of a 9-month study of Paul's letter to the church in Corinth.
In a section over the last four weeks that has spoken particularly of the implications of the gospel to our sexual ethic and the ways that we handle relationships.
We don't do this to try draw a crowd, or to offend, or to be hip or sexy, or current. We have done it because the text speaks of it and we really want to be faithful to the text.
So, in the first week we spoke of sexual immorality.
In the second week, we spoke of sexual intimacy in marriage.
In the third week, we spoke of marriage and divorce.
God has been very kind through all of that and has been doing some amazing things in our midst.
Today, the text is going to speak specifically to singles, but don't dial out if you aren't single, just as we would say in sermons about marriage that people shouldn't dial out if they are single. Why?
First, passages that we have in the Scripture that speak of marriage and singles are still usually addressed to an entire church. Paul doesn't write a separate letter to deal with different groups of people in the church. So, these instructions aren't just addressed to singles, but to the church.
Second, the entire church should care about and be impacted by things that impact only some people in the church deeply. Just as singles should have been impacted by the teaching on what marriage is that was so brilliantly presented last week, married people should be impacted by situations, circumstances, feelings and biblical exhortations that singles experience.
Third, even if you are married today you have a very good ...
Series: Messy Grace
Ross Lester
1 Corinthians
Proposition Statement:
Christian Community is supposed to be family, who share communal devotion to Christ, regardless of people's relationship status.
Intro:
Sanibonani, Dumela, Howzit, Good to see you.
Happy Father's Day.
We are in 1 Corinthians 7 today:
Part of a 9-month study of Paul's letter to the church in Corinth.
In a section over the last four weeks that has spoken particularly of the implications of the gospel to our sexual ethic and the ways that we handle relationships.
We don't do this to try draw a crowd, or to offend, or to be hip or sexy, or current. We have done it because the text speaks of it and we really want to be faithful to the text.
So, in the first week we spoke of sexual immorality.
In the second week, we spoke of sexual intimacy in marriage.
In the third week, we spoke of marriage and divorce.
God has been very kind through all of that and has been doing some amazing things in our midst.
Today, the text is going to speak specifically to singles, but don't dial out if you aren't single, just as we would say in sermons about marriage that people shouldn't dial out if they are single. Why?
First, passages that we have in the Scripture that speak of marriage and singles are still usually addressed to an entire church. Paul doesn't write a separate letter to deal with different groups of people in the church. So, these instructions aren't just addressed to singles, but to the church.
Second, the entire church should care about and be impacted by things that impact only some people in the church deeply. Just as singles should have been impacted by the teaching on what marriage is that was so brilliantly presented last week, married people should be impacted by situations, circumstances, feelings and biblical exhortations that singles experience.
Third, even if you are married today you have a very good ...
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