by MrsJAllen | Nov 3, 2022 | 1corinthians
Sometimes we want to pick and choose the parts of Christianity we like. Take the subject we’ve been talking about this week. There are some rights that are easier to give up than others. It can be tempting to keep some things under our control while being selfless...
by MrsJAllen | Nov 2, 2022 | 1corinthians
Self-centered living doesn’t feel all that bad, right? It might make us a little prideful, but at least our needs will be met and we won’t have to rely on everyone else. Paul anticipates that the Corinthians might think along those lines. So at the beginning of...
by Pastor Bumble | Nov 1, 2022 | 1corinthians
As we go through life everyday, we like to know what’s ahead. We structure our days around our needs— what we’ll eat, when we’ll sleep, what we’ll do at work. Without realizing it, our day can become all about us. In our discussion about giving up our rights, it’s...
by MrsJAllen | Oct 31, 2022 | 1corinthians
Learning to live selflessly isn’t only about setting aside our pride as we talked about last week. It’s also about choosing to set aside certain rights for the good of others. Setting aside our rights paints a much broader stroke across our lives and affects more than...
by MrsJAllen | Oct 28, 2022 | 1corinthians
In 1 Corinthians 8, we’ve seen another way the Corinthian church was missing the others-centered life that Jesus modeled for us. Their pride blinded them to how they were causing other Christians to sin against God. In the last verse of this chapter, Paul says he’d...
by MrsJAllen | Oct 27, 2022 | 1corinthians
We talked yesterday about the internal consequences of pride. Pride has a wider effect than the corruption of our hearts, though. It can cause us to harm other Christians, which is exactly what happened in Corinth. Read 1 Corinthians 8:7-13. 7 However, not all...
