- Membership at PBC
- The design, origin and purpose of the local household of God
- Design
- Origin
- Purpose
- Belonging to the local household of God
- Belonging at PBC (the people)
To see the gospel bear fruit in the Inner West and the World as we commit, grow, engage and send.
Sermons on Community
- Understand
- Words are inevitable
- Words heal
- Words kill
- Relate
- Our words
- Jesus’ words
- Imagine
- Cross-shaped wisdom from the Teacher
- A community built on words
Apologies for recording error at 37:51.
- 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
- Times and Seasons
- Israel’s appointed times
- YHWH’s appointed times
- The reason for the season
- AGM’s, calendars, and corporate responsibility
Leviticus 19:18b ‘but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.’
- The rise of victimhood culture
- Who is my neighbour?
- Rebuking neighbours as an act of love
- The shape of rebuke
- Interpersonal
- Directed
- Performed
- Specific
- Corrective
- Rebuking neighbours for the sake of holiness
- Talking about sex
- Obey my laws and live (v1-5)
- Avoid sexual transgression (v6-23)
- Close relatives
- Other sexual miscondct
- Universal applicability (v24-30)
- Acknowledge complicity
- Heed the warning
- Know forgiveness
- 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
- 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
- “Spiritual”
- “About Spiritual things…” (v1-3)
- Reframing gifts (v4-6)
- Diversity and unity (v7-13)
- Diverse gifts
- One source, one purpose
- A parable of diversity (v14-20)
- A parable of unity (v21-26)
- Once more: diversity! (v27-31)
- 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