SOMETIMES WINNING IS ACTUALLY LOSING (5 OF 17)
by Ross Lester
Scripture: 1Corinthians
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Sometimes Winning is Actually Losing (5 of 17)
Series: Messy Grace
Ross Lester
1st Corinthians
Proposition Statement:
Resolving disputes in the church should look different from resolving disputes outside of the church
Intro:
Welcome to week 11 of Messy Grace, a study in 1st Corinthians.
Paul is writing to a vibrant, gifted, exciting young church in Corinth. But as with all groups of people, they were pretty messed up and there was a bunch of stuff that they didn't see, and needed correcting on. We are no different.
Paul was calling them, and he would be exhorting us, to unity, but not just one kind of unity.He was calling them and he will call them again in this text to unity with one another. But more than that, he was calling them to a unity of belief and behavior. That is where genuine unity with one another would come from anyway, but Paul is concerned that there were large gaps between what the Corinthians believed and how the Corinthians behaved.He is going to ask them 6 times in the next 20 verses... ''do you not know?'' This is a loving beat down to a community that claims to be very wise and yet they aren't living that way, and so Paul asks if they don't know that they should be living differently because he doesn't see it in their behavior.
This hugely impacted their testimony to their surrounding culture, and it hindered their growth in maturity in the faith which is essential to joy. We spoke earlier in the year about how the happiest people in the world are those who don't live with large gaps between what they believe and how they behave, and yet the Corinthians were trying to live with these large gaps, and we continue to do so today.
In essence, the church, the redeemed people of God are called to be good news to the world, but in order to be good news to the world, they need live lives that are set apart from the rest of the world. There should be a discernable difference (in a good way) from the way Christians live t ...
Series: Messy Grace
Ross Lester
1st Corinthians
Proposition Statement:
Resolving disputes in the church should look different from resolving disputes outside of the church
Intro:
Welcome to week 11 of Messy Grace, a study in 1st Corinthians.
Paul is writing to a vibrant, gifted, exciting young church in Corinth. But as with all groups of people, they were pretty messed up and there was a bunch of stuff that they didn't see, and needed correcting on. We are no different.
Paul was calling them, and he would be exhorting us, to unity, but not just one kind of unity.He was calling them and he will call them again in this text to unity with one another. But more than that, he was calling them to a unity of belief and behavior. That is where genuine unity with one another would come from anyway, but Paul is concerned that there were large gaps between what the Corinthians believed and how the Corinthians behaved.He is going to ask them 6 times in the next 20 verses... ''do you not know?'' This is a loving beat down to a community that claims to be very wise and yet they aren't living that way, and so Paul asks if they don't know that they should be living differently because he doesn't see it in their behavior.
This hugely impacted their testimony to their surrounding culture, and it hindered their growth in maturity in the faith which is essential to joy. We spoke earlier in the year about how the happiest people in the world are those who don't live with large gaps between what they believe and how they behave, and yet the Corinthians were trying to live with these large gaps, and we continue to do so today.
In essence, the church, the redeemed people of God are called to be good news to the world, but in order to be good news to the world, they need live lives that are set apart from the rest of the world. There should be a discernable difference (in a good way) from the way Christians live t ...
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