Acts
Part 28: Sent to be Faithful
Sunday, June 4, 2023
Josh Weiland - November 12, 2023
1 Corinthians – Gospel Sanity
In Acts 18, Paul spends 18 months getting the church started in Corinth. Corinth was a decadent, wealthy, and licentious place. A few years after leaving Corinth, Paul writes a series of letters to the church there. In one of those letters, 1 Corinthians, Paul writes to address some divisions in the church and answer questions the had about how to live as Christians in their culture gone mad. Paul addresses numerous issues in the church and culture of that day that could just as well have been written to the Church in America today. Pastor Josh also shares the "3 Circles" method of explaining to the Gospel. — In summary, Paul teaches that the Church's sanity in a world gone crazy is the Gospel.
Scripture References: 1 Corinthians 8:1-13, 1 Corinthians 14:1-40, 1 Corinthians 1:1-31, 1 Corinthians 7:1-40, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13, Acts 18:1-17, 1 Corinthians 6:1-20, 1 Corinthians 12:1-31, 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, 1 Corinthians 5:1-13, 1 Corinthians 11:1-34, 1 Corinthians 1:10, 1 Corinthians 4:1-21, 1 Corinthians 10:1-33, 1 Corinthians 16:1-24, 1 Corinthians 3:1-23, 1 Corinthians 9:1-27, 1 Corinthians 15:1-58, 1 Corinthians 2:1-16
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Sent to be Faithful
Acts 14 records the heart of Paul and Barnabas’s first journey to spread the Gospel. After being run out of Antioch, they head to Iconium where once again there is fruitfulness as they share the Gospel along with opposition to it. When a plan to mistreat and stone them surfaces, they move on to Lystra. In Lystra a crippled man is healed at Paul’s word. After witnessing the miracle, the crowds believe Barnabas and Paul to be Zeus and Hermes. When Paul and Barnabas insist they are not gods but mere men chaos ensues. Paul is stoned and dragged out of the city, assumed dead. After the disciples gather around him he rises, reenters the city then heads to Derbe the following day. Paul and Barnabas were ministering in a culture deeply divided, chaotic, and often opposed to the Gospel—not unlike our own. When the world is full of chaos, opposition, & division, our job is to be faithful and point people to Jesus, leaving the results to God. Pastor Josh also gave a helpful paradigm of “Receive, Reject, Redeem” for us to use as Christians as we interact with our culture.
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