Monday, April 9, 2012

Bible Reading Challenge Week 15 Day 1

Our reading challenge for the day is 1 Corinthians 6-10. I’ll hit a few highlights. You make comments too and fill in the gaps. What strikes you as specially significant?

1 Corinthians 6 - God takes sexual immorality very seriously. How often do we fall prey to our unbelieving society’s norms and allow ourselves to be tempted into denying this issue of purity? What are the implications of telling young people either that they are unable to withstand temptation or telling them that they must withstand temptation and also must wait until they are finished with a college education before they may marry?

1 Corinthians 7 - Marriage and singleness, being a slave or a free person, being a Gentile or a Jew by culture, all is fine. The body of Christ has a place for everyone. But let us be what we are. If married, be married. If single, be single.

1 Corinthians 8 - I wonder what a good parallel to food offered to idols might be in today’s society? We don’t want to do what would make a brother stumble. But what is a serious stumbling block like that in my culture?

1 Corinthians 9 - It is good when God’s people care for their pastors and other Christian workers who have devoted their lives to tending God’s flock. Sometimes it is not necessary but generally it is. Thanks be to God that he raises up faithful saints who will support the work of the Gospel.

1 Corinthians 10 - The language of a “participation” in the Lord’s body and blood in 1 Corinthians 10 is what convinced me of the real bodily presence of Christ in communion. God works throughout Scripture in a strikingly bodily manner. I don’t think we need to try to sanitize it by making it a purely spiritual event. That goes contrary to what we see in the Word of God.

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