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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Everywhere we look, we see a crisis in leadership: selfish leaders, harsh leaders, failing leaders. But leaders in God's kingdom and church are called to be different. What do leaders shaped by and centered on the Gospel look like? Paul models it and teaches us in 1 Corinthians 4.

📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 4:1-7

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The first Sunday of the new year here at Grace Central Coast, we call Covenant Renewal Sunday. It's a Sunday where we take time to renew our covenant commitment to the Lord and our covenant commitment to one another. This year, our challenge comes from 1 Samuel 7.

📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Samuel 7:1-10

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We are living in a world that has been radically and profoundly changed by the Gift of Jesus, but most of us don't know it! As we conclude our INDESCRIBABLE series, we consider how Jesus is a world-changing gift.

📖 SCRIPTURE READING: Matthew 13:31-35

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Have you ever noticed how every character in the Christmas story shares the Gift of Jesus with someone? It's reminder to us that the Good News of Jesus is a gift to be shared. So let's think together about why we don't share the gift of Jesus and explore how we can.

📖SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 2:8-18

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