EXAMINING OUR EXPERIENCE (17 OF 53)
by Mike Stone
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 6:9-11
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Examining Our Experience (17 of 53)
Series: Straight Up Truth for a Messed-Up Church
Mike Stone
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
The running world was shocked by news of a major cheating scandal. It involved a world-famous ultramarathon runner named Kelly Agnew. Agnew literally raced onto the scene of the sport of ultramarathon running in 2011 and quickly started winning races of 100 miles and more.
His best sport was a fixed time race. That's a race, typically on a 1-mile course where runners run for a fixed period of time. Well, over the New Year's weekend, Agnew was well on the way to winning a 72-hour race in Phoenix by running over 220 miles.
But upon further examination, officials determined that Agnew wasn't running the entire lap. See, the runners were given computer chips that registered a lap every time they crossed the starting line. What Agnew didn't know is that there was another monitor at the halfway point. Obviously, the officials became skeptical when he kept crossing the 1-mile marker without ever passing the ½ mile marker.
They discovered he was cutting across the course and hiding in a porta-potty...only to come out every 7 minutes to run across the GPS sensor to log another mile.
In a sport largely based on the honor system, he seemed like a champion. He even had trophies and medals to prove it. But upon further examination, he was proven to be a fraud.
I wonder if Paul felt like those race officials as he watched some of these Corinthians profess that they were saved. I mean everything seemed great at first, but on further examination, something just seemed out of place.
Some of them were just a little too comfortable with sin.
Some of them were just a little too steeped in their pride.
Some of them were just a little too much like the world.
I mean every Sunday they came to church and logged in that they'd run another mile of the Christian race. But Paul seems concerned that they are not running properly. Maybe they are han ...
Series: Straight Up Truth for a Messed-Up Church
Mike Stone
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
The running world was shocked by news of a major cheating scandal. It involved a world-famous ultramarathon runner named Kelly Agnew. Agnew literally raced onto the scene of the sport of ultramarathon running in 2011 and quickly started winning races of 100 miles and more.
His best sport was a fixed time race. That's a race, typically on a 1-mile course where runners run for a fixed period of time. Well, over the New Year's weekend, Agnew was well on the way to winning a 72-hour race in Phoenix by running over 220 miles.
But upon further examination, officials determined that Agnew wasn't running the entire lap. See, the runners were given computer chips that registered a lap every time they crossed the starting line. What Agnew didn't know is that there was another monitor at the halfway point. Obviously, the officials became skeptical when he kept crossing the 1-mile marker without ever passing the ½ mile marker.
They discovered he was cutting across the course and hiding in a porta-potty...only to come out every 7 minutes to run across the GPS sensor to log another mile.
In a sport largely based on the honor system, he seemed like a champion. He even had trophies and medals to prove it. But upon further examination, he was proven to be a fraud.
I wonder if Paul felt like those race officials as he watched some of these Corinthians profess that they were saved. I mean everything seemed great at first, but on further examination, something just seemed out of place.
Some of them were just a little too comfortable with sin.
Some of them were just a little too steeped in their pride.
Some of them were just a little too much like the world.
I mean every Sunday they came to church and logged in that they'd run another mile of the Christian race. But Paul seems concerned that they are not running properly. Maybe they are han ...
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