Taproot Church Twin Falls

This Sunday, we’re getting back to our patient journey through 1 Corinthians. In this passage, Paul begins to confront the Corinthians and their posture regarding knowledge and love, teaching them It is possible to know something as right and yet not apply it with love. 

Jesus has united us as one body, and we grow into his likeness as we faithfully love, serve, and remain connected to one another.

This Sunday we get to begin week 3 of our community practice by focusing on the topic of confession. We will be in 1st John 1:5-10, looking at how a practice of confession within community invites us to live out our union with God by walking in His light together.

What does it mean to carry parts of another person’s story? This is what we’re exploring this week in part 2 of our community series. Jesus is creating a community where everybody can share their joys and sorrows, so that we can carry one another without trying to save one another. In this, we get to faithfully do good without controlling the outcome, and we can trust the Spirit to grow something from what we sow.

This week, we're starting our series through the community practice. We're looking at how the gospel reorients our understanding of family and what it looks like to live life together with our family in Christ. 

We have been looking at how a faithful theology of the body–that we are temples of the Holy Spirit, united with Christ–has a direct impact on how we approach sexuality, marriage, unmarriage, and more. This Sunday, we’ll be working through some of the complex and difficult realities that arise within marriage, looking at some of the ways we’re invited to work through such scenarios and continue living as faithful followers of Jesus.

This week, we look at how Paul reshapes the Corinthians theology pertaining to the body. The spiritual is not better or separated from the physical. Therefore, what we do with our bodies is of great importance. What does it look like for followers of Jesus to glorify God with our bodies? This is the main focus of our passage this week.

The writings of Paul revolutionized the marriage relationship. An implication of the gospel is that marriage is not about power dynamics–a husband being over or in charge of his wife. Rather, the two are equals and a flourishing marriage is one of mutual love, sacrifice, and generosity toward the other. How is this expressed? This is what we get to work through this Sunday. Join us as we begin to see how the gospel can bring about transformation within the marriage relationship.

Who do we understand ourselves to be in Christ. Who do we understand other people to be in Christ? It’s easy to see and emphasize a negative identity–the things we used to be. In Corinthians, Paul reminds the church, then and now, over and over again that we are, through faith in Jesus, new people who are washed, sanctified, and justified. This is incredibly good news! 

The Corinthian community was one filled with interpersonal relationship issues. Among them, the rich were suing the poor, using the corrupt and unjust judicial system outside of the church to do so. In our passage, Paul once again steps into his rebuke toward this church. He invites them to remember who they are–a new family; siblings in Christ–and they need to learn to treat one another as such.