Love Changes Up (2 of 3)
Series: Love Church
Steve Jones
I Corinthians 13
SUMMARY: Love invests a church with the flexibility needed to survive and thrive whenever people come together in a congregation. Paul shows this in three ways in I Corinthians 13:4-7. 1) Love motivates change. 2) Love changes to reach the lost. 3) Love changes to accommodate the saved.
INTRODUCTION: What am I doing right now? That's right. I'm doing stretches. Stretches are important because they improve flexibility. Flexibility is one of the five main components of physical fitness in the human body. Lack of flexibility can limit your mobility and lead to painful injuries. Last June (2017) Denver high school cheerleading coach Ozell Williams was forced to resign after video surfaced showing cheerleaders under his training being repeatedly pushed into splits while their arms were held up by teammates. The pain was evident on the grimacing faces of the girls.
The same kind of thing was going on in the Corinthian Church. The church members were so inflexible with each other everyone was getting bent out of shape. The result? PAIN! They needed some flexibility and, in the church, flexibility is spelled L-O-V-E. Let's break it down.
I. LOVE ACCOMODATES PEOPLE
I Corinthians 13:4-7 ''Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.''
Paul is describing the set of attitudes that enable a church to accommodate other people. After all, the church is people. In Corinth, the tongues-speakers, prophets and miracle-workers would not accommodate anybody. To accommodate someone else is to make a change for their benefit. Accommodation is change for someone else's benefit. That takes love. ...
Series: Love Church
Steve Jones
I Corinthians 13
SUMMARY: Love invests a church with the flexibility needed to survive and thrive whenever people come together in a congregation. Paul shows this in three ways in I Corinthians 13:4-7. 1) Love motivates change. 2) Love changes to reach the lost. 3) Love changes to accommodate the saved.
INTRODUCTION: What am I doing right now? That's right. I'm doing stretches. Stretches are important because they improve flexibility. Flexibility is one of the five main components of physical fitness in the human body. Lack of flexibility can limit your mobility and lead to painful injuries. Last June (2017) Denver high school cheerleading coach Ozell Williams was forced to resign after video surfaced showing cheerleaders under his training being repeatedly pushed into splits while their arms were held up by teammates. The pain was evident on the grimacing faces of the girls.
The same kind of thing was going on in the Corinthian Church. The church members were so inflexible with each other everyone was getting bent out of shape. The result? PAIN! They needed some flexibility and, in the church, flexibility is spelled L-O-V-E. Let's break it down.
I. LOVE ACCOMODATES PEOPLE
I Corinthians 13:4-7 ''Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.''
Paul is describing the set of attitudes that enable a church to accommodate other people. After all, the church is people. In Corinth, the tongues-speakers, prophets and miracle-workers would not accommodate anybody. To accommodate someone else is to make a change for their benefit. Accommodation is change for someone else's benefit. That takes love. ...
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