What's the Big Idea?
Dealing with the church and our fellow Christians is not always easy. We’re not able to just check our sinful natures at the door. Our challenge, then, is how do we live out the call to live together as a Christian community? As we study the first half of 2 Corinthians, we’ll take an in-depth look at how Paul lives and breathes the gospel of Jesus Christ as he ministers to a Christian congregation with struggles and challenges very similar to ours today. We’ll learn that the key to living as a Christian community is that we are “Saved to Serve.”
Series Plan
April 11: Comforted to Comfort
We’ve all wondered why God allows us to experience those difficult and painful days of life. Could it be that God is preparing and equipping us to comfort our brothers and sisters as they face their own challenges?
April 18: Responding to Spiritual Needs
Because the church is about spiritual needs, i.e. forgiveness and reconciliation, living together as a community of believers can be a messy business. But as God causes our hearts to beat more and more at one with his, we will trust each other as we determine the best way to address each other’s spiritual needs.
April 25: Reflecting God’s True Glory
Sometimes people inquire about Sunday School or Christian education because they want their children to “get religion.” What they’re really looking for is a place where their children can learn right from wrong. Yes, that’s important. But the church has something much more glorious to share—a Savior who takes all our wrongs and makes them right.
May 2: Power in Weakness
Physical strength, mental acuteness, outward beauty—these are the qualities that people look for to change the world. Jesus chooses frail clay jars like us to change the world to show that the power is not from us, but in the powerful gospel message we share.
May 9: Seeing the Unseen
Serving in Christ’s Church can be discouraging. It is difficult to understand why everything doesn’t work out better for the Church. It is difficult to understand why faithful servants in Christ’s church suffer so much. What keeps us going in ministry is the unseen – the eternal glory and the heavenly home.
May 16: Compelled to Be Crazy
Are you a Christian fanatic? We probably don’t want that label. But Paul was willing to be called “crazy” for Jesus’ sake. He saw himself and everyone else from a new perspective. That new perspective gives our lives purpose: to be Christ’s ambassadors.
May 23: Open Wide Your Heart
Everyone is worried about good cholesterol and bad cholesterol. For our heart’s sake, we want more of the good and less of the bad. That’s true for our spiritual hearts as well. To be effective in your service to Christ, open your heart to the truth and do all that you can to block out the false.
May 30: Bold Love
Do you love someone enough to hurt them? Sometimes the truth hurts, and yet the people we love need to hear that truth.
June 6: A Surplus of Joy
When you realize how Jesus has saved you, you can’t help but want to serve. When God fills you up, you can’t help but overflow. It’s no wonder that Christians love to be encouraged to live like no one else. We truly believe it is more blessed to give than to receive.
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