To make disciples who love God, love people, and serve the world.

Who wrote the book of Ecclesiastes?

Who are the two voices within the book?

Why did we choose this book to go through during Summer?

How is a Bay Area person similar to “The Teacher” in thought and perspective on life?

The Teacher’s Final Analysis:

The Thesis: All is vanity (everything is meaningless) (v.2)

The Problem: What do people gain from all their toil in this fallen world? (v.3)

Busywork (looks like change…but nothing really has) (v.4-7)

You are never satisfied (v.8)

History keeps repeating itself (v.9)

No one will remember you (v.11)

So now what?

Who wrote the book of Ecclesiastes?

Who are the two voices within the book?

Why did we choose this book to go through during Summer?

How is a Bay Area person similar to “The Teacher” in thought and perspective on life?

The Teacher’s Final Analysis:

The Thesis: All is vanity (everything is meaningless) (v.2)

The Problem: What do people gain from all their toil in this fallen world? (v.3)

Busywork (looks like change…but nothing really has) (v.4-7)

You are never satisfied (v.8)

History keeps repeating itself (v.9)

No one will remember you (v.11)

So now what?

Sharing the Eye Screening history and God sightings.

Sharing the Eye Screening history and God sightings.

To make disciples who love God, love people, and serve the world.

To make disciples who love God, love people, and serve the world.

To make disciples who love God, love people, and serve the world.

To make disciples who love God, love people, and serve the world.

Today we are going through a passage written to the church in Corinth that was going through some problems.

First I will

Read the passage

and then you tell me if you have a sense of what the problem or problems might be, okay?.

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;[b] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Ok, did you catch the problem that the church was having? Let me put it like this. From verses 4 to 7 you have a poem about love. The romantic people call it a poem. The geeky people call in a definition. If you look at the outline you know which one we are. Just kidding. 15 definitions of love. Notice the first two are positive. Notice the last four are positive. And right in the middle, right in between are 9 definitions of love that are negative. Which leads me to wonder out loud whether Paul might have been a little Asian-American? Why so negative, why so much negativity?

The list describes his readers!

Because this was everything the church was.

They were envious of each other. (They had factions. They were jealous of the abilities of one another)

They would boast.

They were arrogant.

They were rude. (They got drunk at the Lord’s Table!)

Each insisted on their own way.

They were irritable

They held grudges against each other. (They even took each other to court)

They rejoiced at wrongdoing (one guy step with his stepmother and some people in the church applauded this and were proud of the person who did that!)

For more, open the pdf.

There are 2 video. The second one is in a language other than English, so you may want to watch that one.