1 Corinthians

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“Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for all of us share that one bread.” (1 Corinthians 10:17 NLT).

August 16, 2021

ONE BREAD, ONE BODY The apostle Paul instructed the Corinthians concerning the significance of sharing the Lord’s Supper together. He told them that those who remember the sacrifice of Christ’s body and blood in the Lord’s Supper are also giving recognition to their oneness as members of Christ’s body. Just as we eat from one

“I have become all things to all people, so that I may by every possible means save some. Now I do all this because of the gospel” (1 Corinthians 9:22-23 HCSB).

August 15, 2021

SERVANT EVANGELISM The apostle Paul described his approach to sharing the gospel as becoming “a slave to everyone, in order to win more people” (1 Cor. 9:19). In other words, he sought to find common ground with his hearers when sharing the good news.   When Paul was in Athens, he used their monument to

“But be careful that this right of yours in no way becomes a stumbling block to the weak.” (1 Corinthians 8:9 HCSB).

August 13, 2021

YOUR RIGHTS ARE LIMITED BY YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO LOVE OTHERS Our freedom in Christ does not relieve us of our responsibility to consider others, especially new believers. In Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, he was concerned about those who felt free to eat meat offered to idols without consideration of those who would be tempted

“And some of you used to be like this. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Corinthians 6:11 HCSB).

August 10, 2021

LIVING OUT YOUR NEW IDENTITY IN CHRIST After admonishing believers in Corinth for suing other brothers in court, rather than handling things within the Church, Paul reminded them that they had a new identity in Christ. He listed some of their former identities, which were really marked by their favorite sins. Identities like: “Fornicators, idolaters,

“In this regard, it is expected of managers that each one of them be found faithful” (1 Corinthians 4:2 HCSB).

August 8, 2021

FAITHFULNESS IS SUCCESS Paul called himself a “steward of God’s mysteries” (1 Cor. 4:1). A steward is a manager who serves on behalf of the owner. Managers in business are judged by their success. But Paul said that stewards of God are judged by their faithfulness. In God’s Kingdom, faithfulness is success.   It’s not

“I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth” (1 Corinthians 3:6 HCSB).

August 7, 2021

UNDERSTANDING OUR PLACE IN WITNESSING Paul wrote to correct the Corinthian church for its disunity and favoritism. For some were claiming to be followers of Paul and others followers of a preacher named Apollos. Paul told them that “neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives

“Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we may understand what has been freely given to us by God” (1 Corinthians 2:12 HCSB).

August 6, 2021

THE SPIRIT OF UNDERSTANDING Have you ever been asked how you can know that God has saved you? The question may come from someone who lacks assurance of salvation themselves, so they want to understand from where you get your confidence. Or the question may come from an agnostic who wishes to challenge the basis

“For I didn’t think it was a good idea to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2 HCSB).

August 5, 2021

TALKING ABOUT JESUS Why is it easier to invite someone to church than it is to invite them to follow Jesus? Talking about church is not the most comfortable thing in our modern culture. It signals a shift in our everyday generic conversation with neighbors and coworkers, for it moves from that which we have

“But I will tarry in Ephesus until Pentecost. For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries” (1 Corinthians 16:8-9 NKJV).

August 25, 2020

WHERE ARE THE OPEN DOORS FOR THE GOSPEL TODAY? From this passage it appears that Paul was living in Ephesus when he wrote his first letter to the Corinthians. Ephesus was one of the great cities in the Roman empire located on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor in the country we now know as

“For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you…” (1 Corinthians 11:23 NKJV).

August 18, 2020

ARE WE PASSING ON THE BATON OF FAITH? The apostle Paul’s teaching concerning the Lord’s Supper was faithfully passed on from the Lord to the church at Corinth. Paul reminded them that his authority as an apostle came from the Lord, as did his message. Having established his credibility, he corrected the unworthy practices of