Sermon Text: 1 Corinthians 12:12-27
Sermon Title: “The Body and Business of the Church”
Sermon Slides:
SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: The Church is Not a Business … But a Body. But the Body Has a Business … Its Members’ Mutual Care.
SLIDE 2 – Sermon Point 1 – The Church is Not a Business … But a Body (vv. 12-20)SLIDE 3 – John 3:8 – “The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”SLIDE 4 – John 6:37-39 – “All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.”SLIDE 5 – Dr. Tom Constable – “Believers who have spectacular gifts, ministries, or effectiveness are not necessarily more spiritual than Christians who do not. Each believer, not just certain believers, makes a unique contribution for the common good.”SLIDE 6 – Soren Kierkegaard – “Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.”
SLIDE 7 – Sermon Point 2 – The Body Has a Business … Its Members’ Mutual Care (vv. 21-27)SLIDE 8 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer – “The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from everyday Christian life in community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; for in the poor sister or brother, Christ is knocking at our door.”SLIDE 9 – “God is in the business of cleaning up our messes. So, the Business of the Church is to care for people in their mess, not to tell them to come back once their mess is gone.”
SLIDE 10 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Your LifeSLIDE 11 – Submit to the Gifts and Calling God’s Given You, Don’t Yearn for Others.SLIDE 12 – If We Want the World to Change, We Must First Love Our Church Well.SLIDE 13 – Where Can You Share in the Mess and Inefficiency of Relationships Here?
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