KILLER WORSHIP (8 OF 8)
by Bob Ingle
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:17-33
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Killer Worship (8 of 8)
Series: Unselfie
Bob Ingle
1 Corinthians 11:17-34
Turn to 1 Corinthians 11. An insurance analyst was tasked with doing a comprehensive survey on the safest places to be protected from an accident that could cause physical harm. This was his conclusion:
-Do not ride in automobiles: they cause 20% of all fatal accidents.
-Do not stay home: 17% of all accidents occur in the home.
-Do not walk on the streets or the sidewalks: 14% of all accidents occur to pedestrians.
-Do not travel by air, rail or water: 16% of all accidents happen on these modes of transportation.
-But only .001% of all deaths reported occur in the worship services of a church.
Therefore, my conclusion is this: ''Go to church, it could save your life!''
We might think church is a very safe place, but the Apostle Paul might disagree. In our passage today, Paul tells the Corinthians that some of the people in their church have died because God killed them. God executed them for failing to take Communion correctly. They degraded and disregarded the whole purpose of it.
Now, I've heard of people dying to take the Lord's Supper, but I don't know of anyone who died from taking the Lord's Supper. That's why I called this message 'Killer Worship'.
Since we're about to celebrate Communion it might be good to understand this text. 1 Cor. 11:17-34 (READ).
The Corinthian church had all kinds of people in it. Jews/Gentiles, rich/poor, slave/free, women/men, educated/uneducated. Communion was given to the church to remind them they were all equal before God, and they were all equally in need of His grace and mercy. They had a tradition of having kind of a potluck supper prior to their worship service. They called it a 'love feast'. It was an opportunity for them to be together, love one another, serve another, and remember the ground at the foot of the cross is level. They are a family. It might have been the best meal some of the slaves and unemplo ...
Series: Unselfie
Bob Ingle
1 Corinthians 11:17-34
Turn to 1 Corinthians 11. An insurance analyst was tasked with doing a comprehensive survey on the safest places to be protected from an accident that could cause physical harm. This was his conclusion:
-Do not ride in automobiles: they cause 20% of all fatal accidents.
-Do not stay home: 17% of all accidents occur in the home.
-Do not walk on the streets or the sidewalks: 14% of all accidents occur to pedestrians.
-Do not travel by air, rail or water: 16% of all accidents happen on these modes of transportation.
-But only .001% of all deaths reported occur in the worship services of a church.
Therefore, my conclusion is this: ''Go to church, it could save your life!''
We might think church is a very safe place, but the Apostle Paul might disagree. In our passage today, Paul tells the Corinthians that some of the people in their church have died because God killed them. God executed them for failing to take Communion correctly. They degraded and disregarded the whole purpose of it.
Now, I've heard of people dying to take the Lord's Supper, but I don't know of anyone who died from taking the Lord's Supper. That's why I called this message 'Killer Worship'.
Since we're about to celebrate Communion it might be good to understand this text. 1 Cor. 11:17-34 (READ).
The Corinthian church had all kinds of people in it. Jews/Gentiles, rich/poor, slave/free, women/men, educated/uneducated. Communion was given to the church to remind them they were all equal before God, and they were all equally in need of His grace and mercy. They had a tradition of having kind of a potluck supper prior to their worship service. They called it a 'love feast'. It was an opportunity for them to be together, love one another, serve another, and remember the ground at the foot of the cross is level. They are a family. It might have been the best meal some of the slaves and unemplo ...
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