Tainted Temples (9 of 17)
Series: Messy Grace
Ross Lester
1st Corinthians
Proposition Statement:
Jesus makes people new. New people live in new ways.
Intro:
Sanibonani, Dumelang, Howzit. We are in week 16 of our study through 1st Corinthians called Messy Grace. The reason we called the series that is because the church in Corinth was messy, and the church around the world has never really grown out of that descriptor. We are a messy bunch, with tons of issues, insecurities, fears, anxieties and sin. But the message of the gospel is that Jesus brings grace to that mess. Wonderful, unmerited, unexpected grace.
AND...not but...AND, we clearly need to think about what we mean when we say grace. For many of us what we mean is that it therefore doesn't matter how we live, because grace. This is indeed one of the big issues in Corinth that is making the community so messy.
In John 1:14 we are told that Jesus came into the world FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH. He didn't see loving kindness and correcting instruction as mutually exclusive.
We see this in the famous story of him and the woman caught in adultery in John 8. He disarms her condemners, gives her totally radical and unexpected grace, and then asks her to do what with it? Leave your life of sin!
Grace and truth.
Christians tend to default to one of them, because we can't get our heads around to hold both of them in tension.
Truth guys. They are the hammer, and every sinner is the nail.
Grace peeps. Live and let live. Who am I to judge? How people live is none of our business as long as they love God.
Why does this matter?
Well the text today is hard. It is filled with biblical truth, and we are going to need the blanket of grace to shield us from being mortally wounded. Okay?
My posture today will be that of one broken person speaking to other broken people - hoping to be full of both grace and truth.
The primary issue that Paul is going to address in this text is the practice of prostitu ...
Series: Messy Grace
Ross Lester
1st Corinthians
Proposition Statement:
Jesus makes people new. New people live in new ways.
Intro:
Sanibonani, Dumelang, Howzit. We are in week 16 of our study through 1st Corinthians called Messy Grace. The reason we called the series that is because the church in Corinth was messy, and the church around the world has never really grown out of that descriptor. We are a messy bunch, with tons of issues, insecurities, fears, anxieties and sin. But the message of the gospel is that Jesus brings grace to that mess. Wonderful, unmerited, unexpected grace.
AND...not but...AND, we clearly need to think about what we mean when we say grace. For many of us what we mean is that it therefore doesn't matter how we live, because grace. This is indeed one of the big issues in Corinth that is making the community so messy.
In John 1:14 we are told that Jesus came into the world FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH. He didn't see loving kindness and correcting instruction as mutually exclusive.
We see this in the famous story of him and the woman caught in adultery in John 8. He disarms her condemners, gives her totally radical and unexpected grace, and then asks her to do what with it? Leave your life of sin!
Grace and truth.
Christians tend to default to one of them, because we can't get our heads around to hold both of them in tension.
Truth guys. They are the hammer, and every sinner is the nail.
Grace peeps. Live and let live. Who am I to judge? How people live is none of our business as long as they love God.
Why does this matter?
Well the text today is hard. It is filled with biblical truth, and we are going to need the blanket of grace to shield us from being mortally wounded. Okay?
My posture today will be that of one broken person speaking to other broken people - hoping to be full of both grace and truth.
The primary issue that Paul is going to address in this text is the practice of prostitu ...
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