Does It Build Up?
Grace Central Coast
As we make countless decisions around how to spend our time, talents, money and our lives, we most often ask "Is it legal? Does God allow it?" 1 Corinthians 10 teaches that's the wrong question and points us to an altogether different question to ask as we make these decisions. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 10:14-30 📝 Download the Message Notes:
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Take Heed, Lest You Fall
Grace Central Coast
Paul's warning to the Corinthian church serves as a warning for us to remember the past failures of God's people in order that we guard our own lives and flee from idolatry and stay faithful to Christ. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 10:1-14 📝 Download the Message Notes:
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Run to Win
Grace Central Coast
Paul uses sports analogies to continue his encouragement to the church of Corinth to be Gospel focused. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 📝 Download the Message Notes:
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Giving Up to Win
Grace Central Coast
How does the Apostle Paul choose to exercise his Christian freedom? By giving up his rights to win as many to Christ as possible. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 📝 Download the Message Notes:
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Trading Worldly Rights for Spiritual Rewards
Grace Central Coast
Why does Paul refuse payment for his church ministry? Should all pastors do the same? Paul teaches us that while we are afforded many rights, we are called to use (or forfeit) everything and anything for the sake of the gospel. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 9:1-18 📝 Download the Message Notes:
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By a Man Has Come the Resurrection of the Dead
Grace Central Coast
The world looks one way from ground level. But it looks very different when we get up above it. In 1 Corinthians 15:20-28, the Apostle Paul takes us higher and invites us to see the earth-shaking, life-changing, future-shaping impact of Jesus' resurrection. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 15:17-28 📝 Download the Message Notes:
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Love Builds Up
Grace Central Coast
Just like some of the Christians in Corinth, we are those who fight for our personal rights and freedoms. Paul here in 1 Corinthians 8 teaches that for those who love God, Gospel love trumps and must shape the exercise of our rights freedoms. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1
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Concerning Divorce and Remarriage
Grace Central Coast
Like the Corinthians, we are a MESSY CHURCH filled with messy people who are living messy lives. We, like them, need clear Biblical instruction on the messy issues around marriage and divorce. 1 Corinthians 7 provides a guide! 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 7:10-16, 39-40 📝 Download the Message Notes:
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Value of the Lost
Grace Central Coast
In Luke 15, Jesus tells stories to teach hard-hearted religious people how much God values lost people. Jesus’ teaching here challenges each of us to ask, “How much do I value the lost?” 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 15:1-3 📝 Download the Message Notes:
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The Opportunity of Singleness
Grace Central Coast
Why does Paul celebrate singleness? Why does he call it a gift when many see it as a curse? Paul elevates the singles in the church by pulling back our focus to see that devotion to God matters more than any relationship status. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 7:25-38 📝 Download the Message Notes:
info_outlineIn 1 Corinthians 5, Paul begins to confront and correct some MESSY sexual sin in the Corinthian church. As we dive into this vulnerable subject, the place to start is to explain what “sexual immorality” is and why it’s so serious in the sight of God.
📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 5
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