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1 Corinthians #23 - Gospel Irony about Religious Disconnect, Part 1

August 31, 2022

Paul sharpens this illustration with a further irony that would have startled his original hearers. He says that if someone speaks in church without making the gospel understandable, he is no better than a barbarian! Paul teaches about speaking in tongues.

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When Paul says "love never fails," he's not calling us to an impossible legalistic standard. Of course, we all fail in love on occasion, and those who love us also fail. We can think that love is blind or to be loving is to be naive, but Paul says Jesus' world is one of love, so being loving is seeing life as it really is.
August 30, 2022
When we think of love, we tend to think of the head-in-the-clouds folly of a young romantic. Love is for the youthful idealist, someone who has not yet been seasoned by adversity and learned in practice that sometimes strength is more important than affection. Paul teaches that understanding and showing love is part of being a mature Christian.
August 29, 2022
Paul says this form of religion is like being a slave–like being held back in immaturity and not going on to mature spirituality. In the gospel we move from this slavery relationship to one of adoption with full rights as sons and daughters in Christ.
August 27, 2022
We as Christians will be better at advocating for the Bible, better at defending traditional values, and better at teaching the exclusivity of Christ if our rejoicing in truth is embedded in a 1 Corinthians 13 type of love.
August 26, 2022
Perhaps we should contrast 1 Corinthians 13 to the popular pagan cults of today: "If I speak on the celebrity circuit to thousands but do not have love, I am just the sound of paparazzi flashes going off, or a noisy blog, or a meaningless tweet." Paul teaches about the countercultural beauty of love.
August 25, 2022
Here Paul lists several spiritual gifts in a bit of a hierarchy. The key is the significance of the clarity of the gospel. The most important thing is that people understand it, so he lists the speaking gifts first. All of this needs to be understood in the context of love, submission to one another, and reverence for Christ.
August 24, 2022
We are a body with different members and all are necessary. But unlike in the world where we give special honor to the especially honorable, in the church we do the reverse. The counter cultural aspect of the Christian community is its willingness to honor those who lack honor.
August 23, 2022
Paul is addressing diversity in the Corinthian church. There were rich and poor, Jews and Greeks, slaves and free—very significant divisions within the Greco-Roman culture that were reflected in the church, and yet Paul calls them to unity in the midst of their diversity.
August 22, 2022
Living in the AD reality of Christ's death and resurrection means to live as sons of the heavenly Father with the desire to please him in every way and to have fellowship that is unbroken by the barriers that we construct between each other in our fallen state.
August 20, 2022
We need contentment and rejoicing in what gifts God has given us, rather than wishing we had something else. Make the most of what God has given you, and know that it's all going to fit together in a beautiful orchestra according to God's design and His tune.
August 19, 2022
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Josh Moody (Ph.D., University of Cambridge) is the senior pastor of College Church in Wheaton, IL., president and founder of God Centered Life Ministries, and author of several books including How the Bible Can Change Your Life. He was an associate fellow of Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University (2007-2011), and his Cambridge University doctorate in Theology was published in 2005. Pastor Josh grew up south of London, became a follower of Jesus in the Church of England, was an undergraduate at Cambridge University where he was president of the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union. He is married to Rochelle, and they have four children.

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