ORDER IN THE CHURCH (35 OF 53)
by Mike Stone
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 14:26-40
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Order in the Church (35 of 53)
Series: Straight Up Truth for a Messed-Up Church
Mike Stone
1 Corinthians 14:26-40
In 1 Corinthians 12-14, Paul has been dealing with the issue of corporate or public worship. In this section, he writes about how we are to act, work, serve, and respond when we are at church.
In chapter 12 he dealt with spiritual gifts and reminded us we all have a part to play in the body of Christ.
In chapter 13 talked about the ending of sign gifts such as tongues, prophecies, and words of knowledge and reminded us that LOVE is to be preeminent.
In chapter 14 he wrote more about the use and misuse of tongues. As this subsection closes he addresses the issue of the charismatic chaos that was rampant in the Corinthian church and teaches them there is to be Order in the Church.
God is a God of order. While God cannot be put in a box or systematized like a robot or a computer, He's still a God of order. There is order in your physical body, the galaxy, molecules, and atoms. And here was see there is even ORDER in the church.
When you look at some church services, particularly some of the ones on ''Christian TV,'' they look like mass chaos. But God wants His house to be a place of prayer...worship...and order.
Stated another way, in God's economy, there is a time and a place for everything. And with SOME things, Sunday is never the time and church is never the place.
1. The Correct Description of Order (26)
What does order look like? Some people think it looks like an ''Order of Service.'' There's nothing wrong with a printed order but that's not what this is about!
Some think an ORDERLY service means music that sounds like a funeral, a preacher that acts like an undertaker, and a congregation that acts like a bunch of corpses.
Most Baptists don't know what Biblical ''order'' looks like. I preach in a lot of places and many of us don't know the difference in reverence and rigor mortis.
In his commentary on this te ...
Series: Straight Up Truth for a Messed-Up Church
Mike Stone
1 Corinthians 14:26-40
In 1 Corinthians 12-14, Paul has been dealing with the issue of corporate or public worship. In this section, he writes about how we are to act, work, serve, and respond when we are at church.
In chapter 12 he dealt with spiritual gifts and reminded us we all have a part to play in the body of Christ.
In chapter 13 talked about the ending of sign gifts such as tongues, prophecies, and words of knowledge and reminded us that LOVE is to be preeminent.
In chapter 14 he wrote more about the use and misuse of tongues. As this subsection closes he addresses the issue of the charismatic chaos that was rampant in the Corinthian church and teaches them there is to be Order in the Church.
God is a God of order. While God cannot be put in a box or systematized like a robot or a computer, He's still a God of order. There is order in your physical body, the galaxy, molecules, and atoms. And here was see there is even ORDER in the church.
When you look at some church services, particularly some of the ones on ''Christian TV,'' they look like mass chaos. But God wants His house to be a place of prayer...worship...and order.
Stated another way, in God's economy, there is a time and a place for everything. And with SOME things, Sunday is never the time and church is never the place.
1. The Correct Description of Order (26)
What does order look like? Some people think it looks like an ''Order of Service.'' There's nothing wrong with a printed order but that's not what this is about!
Some think an ORDERLY service means music that sounds like a funeral, a preacher that acts like an undertaker, and a congregation that acts like a bunch of corpses.
Most Baptists don't know what Biblical ''order'' looks like. I preach in a lot of places and many of us don't know the difference in reverence and rigor mortis.
In his commentary on this te ...
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