- Love in an age of manufactured discontent
- Particular issues…
- For the married: sex or celibacy? (v1-7)
- For widows and the unmarried: to (re)marry or not to (re)marry? (v8-9)
- For those married to a fellow believer: to stay together or to separate? (v10-11)
- For those married to an unbeliever: to stay or to leave? and if your partner leaves?
- General Principles…
- Accepting God’s gifts (v7, 17, 21)
- Keeping God’s commandments (v10, 19)
- Responding to God’s call (v17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24)
- Living in God’s freedom (v23)
- Final Words Matter
- Psalm 22
- Turning to God in complaint (v1-2)
- Remembering past deliverances (v3-5)
- Acknowledging the presence of enemies (v6-18)
- Pleading with God for help (v19-21)
- Thanking God for deliverance (v22-31)
- A Psalm for us
- A Psalm for Jesus
- ‘I’ll rest when I’m dead’
- Rest and Creation
- Rest and Redemption
- Real Rest
- Mission Work
- Blessing Work
- Backdrop: Full-time ministry
- Mission and Blessing Work working together
- Blessing to Mission
- Mission to Blessing
- A model for mission
- Organising?
- The Good of Working together
- Work enabling work
- When work is enabled
- The Peril of Working Together
- The peril of achieving good work
- The peril of abandoning good work
- Organising Love
- Thinking about work
- Work Created (‘Creation Work’)
- The creation mandate
- The first work (naming)
- God’s work and God’s creation
- God’s work and our work
- ‘Creation work’
- Work Frustrated (‘Fall Work’)
- Frustrated and frustrating
- Work continues
- Fall work
- The End of Work (‘Redemption Work’)
- Creation, Fall, Redemption
- A scandal in suburbia
- Two scandals in Corinth
- A man and his step-father (5:1-13)
- Predatory lawsuits (6:1-11)
- “Do you not know” Six things the Corinthians had forgotten
- “Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?” (5:6)
- “Do you not know that the Lord’s people will judge the world?” (6:2, cf. v3)
- “Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God?” (6:9)
- “Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself?” (6:15)
- “Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body?” (6:16)
- “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit?” (6:19)
- You are not your own
- Why care about leadership?
- The Corinthians and their leaders
- Boasting (v 6-7, 18)
- Judging (v 3-5)
- What are leaders?
- Servants (v 1-5)
- Slaves and fools (v 8-13)
- Examples to imitate (v 14-21)
- Polls, Popularity and Power
- Leadership in Corinth (3:1-4)
- Reframing leaders (3:5-9)
- Reframing leadership (3:10-17)
- Careful work (3:10-15)
- Sacred work (3:16-17)
- Final warnings and reminders
- Boasting and wisdom
- Boasting and belonging