Righting the Ship
Jerry Watts
1 Corinthians 1:1-3
In training and on the check ride to become a Private Pilot, the instructor gets the young pilot to close their eyes and sets the aircraft in an unusual attitude and then tells the young pilot to take over. From experience, I know the first feeling is of ''disorientation'', at that moment, your horizon can be occluded and your senses tell you to do the wrong thing. In that time of distress, you must trust information and the instrumentation or die. When you fly cross country, the information you receive from your instruments MUST BE TRUSTED!!
The same is true if you have a ship in the Ocean. If you have no compass and it's a cloudy day, you can find yourself off course and lost.
The most frightening thing to consider is to be a passenger in such an aircraft or watercraft, don't know where you're going, and don't know who or what has the controls?
I submit that a church is like a plane or a ship and is on a journey. The course is charted by the Lord Himself and when it's get off course, it causes fear. Such was the church in Corinth. She had begun the journey headed correctly, but now the ship had lost her way, her moorings.
Why? It serves us well to look at the community of Corinth that we understand what happened to them, might be the very thing that is happening to the Church of America.
CORINTH was a town that most of us would like. She could have been a 21st century city found in America. Economy, entertainment, and the arts, were center mask. They literally had the best of the best, with wealth and luxury pulling at people from all sides. In other words, Pleasure!! This society was sensual, lude, and to use a modern-day word, ''tolerant''! With all they did, they made it 'palatable'. To Corinthianize something meant it was compromised to the point of being comfortable with it. Scripture says that in the last days they'll be no truth - this was the case.
Paul came to Corinth in (Acts 18) ...
Jerry Watts
1 Corinthians 1:1-3
In training and on the check ride to become a Private Pilot, the instructor gets the young pilot to close their eyes and sets the aircraft in an unusual attitude and then tells the young pilot to take over. From experience, I know the first feeling is of ''disorientation'', at that moment, your horizon can be occluded and your senses tell you to do the wrong thing. In that time of distress, you must trust information and the instrumentation or die. When you fly cross country, the information you receive from your instruments MUST BE TRUSTED!!
The same is true if you have a ship in the Ocean. If you have no compass and it's a cloudy day, you can find yourself off course and lost.
The most frightening thing to consider is to be a passenger in such an aircraft or watercraft, don't know where you're going, and don't know who or what has the controls?
I submit that a church is like a plane or a ship and is on a journey. The course is charted by the Lord Himself and when it's get off course, it causes fear. Such was the church in Corinth. She had begun the journey headed correctly, but now the ship had lost her way, her moorings.
Why? It serves us well to look at the community of Corinth that we understand what happened to them, might be the very thing that is happening to the Church of America.
CORINTH was a town that most of us would like. She could have been a 21st century city found in America. Economy, entertainment, and the arts, were center mask. They literally had the best of the best, with wealth and luxury pulling at people from all sides. In other words, Pleasure!! This society was sensual, lude, and to use a modern-day word, ''tolerant''! With all they did, they made it 'palatable'. To Corinthianize something meant it was compromised to the point of being comfortable with it. Scripture says that in the last days they'll be no truth - this was the case.
Paul came to Corinth in (Acts 18) ...
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