Like the Corinthians, we are a MESSY CHURCH filled with messy people who are living messy lives. We, like them, need clear Biblical instruction on the messy issues around marriage and divorce. 1 Corinthians 7 provides a guide!

📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 7:10-16, 39-40

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In Luke 15, Jesus tells stories to teach hard-hearted religious people how much God values lost people. Jesus' teaching here challenges each of us to ask, "How much do I value the lost?"

📖 SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 15:1-3

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Why does Paul celebrate singleness? Why does he call it a gift when many see it as a curse? Paul elevates the singles in the church by pulling back our focus to see that devotion to God matters more than any relationship status.

📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 7:25-38

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After warning about the dangers of sexual immorality in chapter 6, Paul now highlights several principles for marriage in the first part of chapter 7.

📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 7:1-10

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Today, we step back from the tough details of 1 Corinthians 5 & 6 to provide some pastoral reflections, clarification, encouragement, and application from these chapters for our church family living and loving in the mess.

📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 5:7-13, 6:11

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In 1 Corinthians 6:12-20, Paul returns to the delicate and dangers area of sexual immorality and, again, grounds his teaching in the Gospel, all that God has done for us in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus!

📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

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The Christians in the Corinthian church are suing one another in civil courts! Its another area where they aren't living or applying the Gospel together.Here we see how Paul challenges them with the Gospel to live differently.

📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 6:1-11

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1 Corinthians 5 highlights both the seriousness of sexual immorality in our own lives and seriousness of sexual immorality in the church. This passage provides guidelines for how a church is to deal with ongoing, habitual, unconfessed, public sin.

📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 5

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In 1 Corinthians 5, Paul begins to confront and correct some MESSY sexual sin in the Corinthian church. As we dive into this vulnerable subject, the place to start is to explain what "sexual immorality" is and why it's so serious in the sight of God.

📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 5

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In one last effort to call the Corinthian church to humble unity centered on the gospel, Paul exposes how their love of worldly honor is completely at odds with the way of Jesus. He then calls them to imitate his example for the sake of their unity together.

📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 4:8–21

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