Text: 1 Corinthians 4:1-7
Text: 1 Corinthians 3:18-23
Theme: The Solution to the Problem of Church Division
Text: 1 Corinthians 2:1-16
Theme: Right living depends on right thinking.
- Read 1 Corinthians 2:1-4 and then read 2 Corinthians 10:3-6. What is a common theme or word?
- In what way are you tempted to lean on human wisdom?
- How is God’s eternal decree (2 Corinthians 2:7) for your glory? Look at 2 Corinthians 3:18 and Romans 8:29-30.
- Look ahead to our next study in 1 Corinthians 3:1-4. Are these believers being described, or unbelievers?
Text: 1 Corinthians 1:26-31
Theme: Consider your calling, and then boast in Jesus Christ.
Consider your calling - how God called you to be in Christ Jesus, so that you will boast in Jesus.
I will not boast in anything - no gift, no power no wisdom - but I will boast in Jesus Christ, his death and resurrection.
Text: 1 Corinthians 1:18-25
- What do you make of the phrase in 1 Corinthians 1:18 “us who are being saved”? How would you explain this to someone?
- What are some ways that verse 19 might be true – that God “will destroy the wisdom of the wise”?
- We sang and studied the power of the cross on Sunday. How can this power be evident in your life this week?
- Look ahead to our next study in 1 Corinthians 1:26-31.
Text: John 13:1-17
Theme: Serving others as Christ served you
- Read Matthew 20:17-28 and remember the context of v.17-19, since it helps paint the selfishness of the ensuing bickering. Do you ever lose sight of God's agenda in pursuit of your own?
- Philippians 2:3 addresses our motives. What does humility enable us to do in this verse?
- Who do you have a hard time serving? Why so?
- Look ahead to our next study in 1 Corinthians 1:18-31.
Text: 1 Corinthians 1:10-17
Theme: The truest unity is found in the clearest gospel.
- Read 1 Corinthians 1:10 regarding ‘divisions’. You see the same word in Matthew 9:16, John 7:43, and John 9:16.
- What ‘divisions/conflicts’ have you witnessed in the local church?
- Also in v.10 we see the idea of being ‘united’. Find this same word in both Matthew 4:21 and 1 Thessalonians 3:10
- Look ahead to our next study in 1 Corinthians 1:18-31.
Text: 1 Corinthians 1:4-9
Theme: God gives grace to equip you for the journey of holiness.
- Compare 1 Corinthians 1:5 "enriched" with 2 Corinthians 8:9.
- Read Deuteronomy 7:9 and 32:4 as foundation for 1 Corinthians 1:9.
- 1 Corinthians 1:8 speaks of being "guiltless". See this theme in Romans 8:31-34 and Jude 24-25.
- Look ahead to the next passage of our study in 1 Corinthians, 1:10-17.
Text: 1 Corinthians 1:1-3
Theme: The call to holiness in 1 Corinthians is God's idea.
Text: 1 Corinthians 1:1-9
Text: 1 Corinthians 2:4-5
Theme: Our various outreach efforts must be governed by biblical presuppositions.
Text: Mark 1:17-18
Theme: Our various outreach efforts must be governed by biblical presuppositions.
Series: Missions Study
Text: Philippians 2:15-16
Theme: Out various outreach efforts must be governed by biblical presuppositions.
Text: Luke 4:14-30
Series: Knowing God
Text: Psalm 102:25-27
Series: Knowing God
Text: Romans 3:21-26
Series: Knowing God
Text: Psalm 119:68