GRAPPLING WITH THE GRAY AREAS (10)
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 8
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Grappling with the Gray Areas (10)
Series: 1 Corinthians
Robert Dawson
1 Corinthians 8
When we were very young and learning things like numbers, shapes and colors, we started off with the basics.
- When you learned shapes, you did not start out with octagons and hexagons. You started out with circles, squares and triangles. Things got more complicated after that!
- When you started learning about numbers and math you did not begin with multiplication or long division. You learned to count and then to add and subtract. After that things got complicated!
- When it came to colors, you started out with a few. The basics. Red, yellow, blue, green, black, white, orange and maybe purple. To our young and untrained eyes everything was one of those colors. As we grew older things got complicated! We learned there were different shades of every color and that you could mix the colors to make new colors and variations of colors to the point you were not sure which category it belonged in any longer. Is it blue or is it green? No. It's blue-green!
As we move through life things we believed to be simple become much more complicated than we first imagined. When the complexities and nuances of life begin to mount so do the questions.
The same is true of our faith. The farther we go in our journey of faith we find some things to be a little more complicated and nuanced than we first thought.
- There are shades and variations of applied theology that we did not see before.
- I am not saying that biblical doctrines and gospel truths are somehow relative and not absolute.
- But how we live out and apply these biblical doctrines and gospel truths in our daily lives, especially when it comes to those areas of life where we cannot find chapter and verse, are a little more difficult than we often care to admit.
This was part of the struggle the believers in Corinth were having. They were a hot-mess. They were struggling to live out their faith in a very to ...
Series: 1 Corinthians
Robert Dawson
1 Corinthians 8
When we were very young and learning things like numbers, shapes and colors, we started off with the basics.
- When you learned shapes, you did not start out with octagons and hexagons. You started out with circles, squares and triangles. Things got more complicated after that!
- When you started learning about numbers and math you did not begin with multiplication or long division. You learned to count and then to add and subtract. After that things got complicated!
- When it came to colors, you started out with a few. The basics. Red, yellow, blue, green, black, white, orange and maybe purple. To our young and untrained eyes everything was one of those colors. As we grew older things got complicated! We learned there were different shades of every color and that you could mix the colors to make new colors and variations of colors to the point you were not sure which category it belonged in any longer. Is it blue or is it green? No. It's blue-green!
As we move through life things we believed to be simple become much more complicated than we first imagined. When the complexities and nuances of life begin to mount so do the questions.
The same is true of our faith. The farther we go in our journey of faith we find some things to be a little more complicated and nuanced than we first thought.
- There are shades and variations of applied theology that we did not see before.
- I am not saying that biblical doctrines and gospel truths are somehow relative and not absolute.
- But how we live out and apply these biblical doctrines and gospel truths in our daily lives, especially when it comes to those areas of life where we cannot find chapter and verse, are a little more difficult than we often care to admit.
This was part of the struggle the believers in Corinth were having. They were a hot-mess. They were struggling to live out their faith in a very to ...
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