RIGHT TO RELINQUISH (6 OF 17)
by Ross Lester
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 9
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Right to Relinquish (6 of 17)
Series: Messy Grace
Ross Lester
1 Corinthians 9
Proposition Statement:
Gospel living involves being willing to forsake our rights in service of others
Intro:
Sanibonani, Dumelang, Howzit
Welcome to week 13 of Messy Grace, a study in 1st Corinthians. 1 Corinthians 9 is where we will be.
So much fun to be working through a series together with you all. We prep all of this together in team, and as I have been traveling a lot the last couple of weeks, the heavy lifting of prepping for this message was carried by Badi. We love that sort of team approach.
Might also encourage you to know that this isn't just being preached at MBC and BBC today, but also at Rooted in Pretoria, Grace in East London and is also being used to prep a sermon series for some friends on the East Coast of the US.
If we were to summarize the argument of Paul up until this point in his letter to the Corinthian church, it would be that Paul deeply desires that what the Corinthians believe would be more closely aligned to how the Corinthians behave.
He has spoken of Christian unity, Christian liberty (last week), Christian purity (will be covering over the next few weeks), and has been making the argument that the behaviors in all of those areas should be altered by their belief in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
This is the order of Christian life change. Believe...then behave.
Some of us make the error of thinking that we must behave in order to believe and that will keep us feeling defeated, but many of us live with large gaps between what we believe and how we behave. This ruins our true chance of Christian community as we end up play acting in order to hide the gap.
The gap that Paul is going to expose this week is in the area of Christian sacrifice of self for the greater good of others. I mean this is an instruction for Christian living, given to us by Jesus Himself.
To go the extra mile.
To turn the other cheek.
To believe th ...
Series: Messy Grace
Ross Lester
1 Corinthians 9
Proposition Statement:
Gospel living involves being willing to forsake our rights in service of others
Intro:
Sanibonani, Dumelang, Howzit
Welcome to week 13 of Messy Grace, a study in 1st Corinthians. 1 Corinthians 9 is where we will be.
So much fun to be working through a series together with you all. We prep all of this together in team, and as I have been traveling a lot the last couple of weeks, the heavy lifting of prepping for this message was carried by Badi. We love that sort of team approach.
Might also encourage you to know that this isn't just being preached at MBC and BBC today, but also at Rooted in Pretoria, Grace in East London and is also being used to prep a sermon series for some friends on the East Coast of the US.
If we were to summarize the argument of Paul up until this point in his letter to the Corinthian church, it would be that Paul deeply desires that what the Corinthians believe would be more closely aligned to how the Corinthians behave.
He has spoken of Christian unity, Christian liberty (last week), Christian purity (will be covering over the next few weeks), and has been making the argument that the behaviors in all of those areas should be altered by their belief in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
This is the order of Christian life change. Believe...then behave.
Some of us make the error of thinking that we must behave in order to believe and that will keep us feeling defeated, but many of us live with large gaps between what we believe and how we behave. This ruins our true chance of Christian community as we end up play acting in order to hide the gap.
The gap that Paul is going to expose this week is in the area of Christian sacrifice of self for the greater good of others. I mean this is an instruction for Christian living, given to us by Jesus Himself.
To go the extra mile.
To turn the other cheek.
To believe th ...
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