Sermons on Community

The Global and Local Church

Apologies for recording error at 37:51.

Luke 24: 44-49

1 Timothy 5:3-10

  • The Church is Global
    • Global Christians
    • For God so loved
    • To all nations
  • The Church is local
    • Following Jesus together
    • An identifiable community
    • A specific type of community
  • Living as the Global People and Local Household of God
    • Thinking too highly and too lowly of the local household of God
    • Thinking too highly and lowly of the global people of God

The gospel and the shape of Christian relationships

1 Corinthians 16

  • Why letters?
  • The gospel and the shape of Christian relationships
    • Giving (v1-4, 23) and the grace of Christ
    • Partnership (v5-9, 12) in the gospel of Christ
    • Recognition (v10-11, 15-16) for those who do the work of the Lord
    • Urgency (v13-14, 22) and the return of Christ
    • Love (v19-24) for the Lord, and for each other
  • The shape of our relationships

Church, Love and Edification

1 Corinthians 14

  • A meeting without a manual
  • Three determining factors
    • The purpose we meet for (v1, 26)
    • The God that we worship (v33a)
    • The Scriptures God has given us (v33b-38)
  • A case study: Tongues and Prophecy in Corinth
    • The differences between them (v1-5)
    • The value of intelligibility…
      • …for the sake of each other (v6-19)
      • …for the sake of the visiting unbeliever (v20-25)
    • Ordering tongues and prophecy (v26-40)
  • Applying the case study