LEAVING CHURCH WORSE THAN WHEN YOU CAME (28 OF 53)
by Mike Stone
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:17-22
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Leaving Church Worse than When You Came (28 of 53)
Series: Straight Up Truth for a Messed-Up Church
Mike Stone
1 Corinthians 11:17-22
In the second half of this chapter, the Apostle Paul makes one of the most staggering accusations against the Corinthian church. He will tell them that they are so misusing and abusing the Lord's Supper, that God has disciplined their membership to the point of sentencing some of them to death.
While there are many faithful members, God has had a belly-full of some of them. And the concerns raised by the Apostle Paul are not limited to the way they are acting ''out in the world.'' He's troubled by the way they are acting ''when they come to church.''
Very often, preachers will rebuke Christians who act one way on Sunday and a different way Monday-Saturday. Well, here, Paul says ''You Corinthians aren't living right on Sunday either.''
In this text he gives one of the most scathing rebukes you'll find anywhere in the Bible. He says, you're so messed up in the way you act at church, you would have been better off in the sight of God if you had stayed home. You're going to leave church worse than when you came.
It's obvious this rebuke involves the ''church service.''
This ''pastoral scolding'' is about the corporate gathering.
2x he mentions the ''church.''
3x he says their sin is happening when they ''come together.''
Verse 17 - When you ''come together'' you would have been better off if you had not ''come together'' because you're leaving church worse than when you came.
What kind of church service makes its attendees, at least the guilty ones, leave church worse than when they came?
1. When strife is present (17-18)
Back in verse 2, he praised them for their desire to get a Biblical answer about the roles of men and women in the church. Having praised them for that, he now says, ''I can't praise you for this.''
And beginning in verse 18, he begins a list of 3 things that do not merit a pat on ...
Series: Straight Up Truth for a Messed-Up Church
Mike Stone
1 Corinthians 11:17-22
In the second half of this chapter, the Apostle Paul makes one of the most staggering accusations against the Corinthian church. He will tell them that they are so misusing and abusing the Lord's Supper, that God has disciplined their membership to the point of sentencing some of them to death.
While there are many faithful members, God has had a belly-full of some of them. And the concerns raised by the Apostle Paul are not limited to the way they are acting ''out in the world.'' He's troubled by the way they are acting ''when they come to church.''
Very often, preachers will rebuke Christians who act one way on Sunday and a different way Monday-Saturday. Well, here, Paul says ''You Corinthians aren't living right on Sunday either.''
In this text he gives one of the most scathing rebukes you'll find anywhere in the Bible. He says, you're so messed up in the way you act at church, you would have been better off in the sight of God if you had stayed home. You're going to leave church worse than when you came.
It's obvious this rebuke involves the ''church service.''
This ''pastoral scolding'' is about the corporate gathering.
2x he mentions the ''church.''
3x he says their sin is happening when they ''come together.''
Verse 17 - When you ''come together'' you would have been better off if you had not ''come together'' because you're leaving church worse than when you came.
What kind of church service makes its attendees, at least the guilty ones, leave church worse than when they came?
1. When strife is present (17-18)
Back in verse 2, he praised them for their desire to get a Biblical answer about the roles of men and women in the church. Having praised them for that, he now says, ''I can't praise you for this.''
And beginning in verse 18, he begins a list of 3 things that do not merit a pat on ...
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