4. Characteristics of The Corinthian Church:
1) Made Up of First Gen Christians
2) Serious Moral and Behavioral Problems
5. Characteristics of The Corinthian Church:
1) Made Up of First Gen Christians
2) Serious Moral and Behavioral Problems
3) Deeply Divided
6. Characteristics of The Corinthian Church:
1) Made Up of First Gen Christians
2) Serious Moral and Behavioral Problems
3) Deeply Divided
4) God’s Plan “A” – No Plan ”B”
7. “It is not so much the case that God has a
mission for his church in the world but that God
has a church for his mission in the world.
Mission was not made for the church; the church
was made for mission – God’s mission.”
- Christopher Wright, The Mission of
God
8. Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of
Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes,
To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those
sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together
with all those who in every place call upon the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ.
12. When The Dust Settles, Everything Rises and
Falls on Jesus. Why?
13. When The Dust Settles, Everything Rises and
Falls on Jesus. Why?
1) He Is The One Who Makes Us Holy
14. Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not
inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,
nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor
revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of
God. And such were some of
15. you. 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 6:9-11
16. Justified: to cause someone to be released from
personal or institutional claims that are no longer
to be considered pertinent or valid.
17. I give thanks to my God always for you because
of the grace of God that was given you in Christ
Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in
him in all speech and all knowledge— even as
the testimony about Christ was confirmed among
you— so that you are not lacking in any gift, as
you wait for the revealing of our Lord
18. Jesus Christ, who will sustain you to the end,
guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God
is faithful, by whom you were called into the
fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
- vv. 4-9
19. When The Dust Settles, Everything Rises and
Falls on Jesus. Why?
1) He Is The One Who Makes Us Holy
2) He Is Where All Of History Is Headed
