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Dan Kane takes us through John 4 this week. Through the story of the Samaritan woman at the well, we’ll see how people can be changed by coming into contact with Jesus.
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Dan Kane takes us through John 4 this week. Through the story of the Samaritan woman at the well, we’ll see how people can be changed by coming into contact with Jesus.
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What’s the essence of the Christian faith? Is it honoring God with your life? Living a life of integrity? Not being selfish? Helping others? Can you love God, be sincere and ignore Jesus altogether? The whole heaven and hell thing – is that a misguided or outdated question, as many church-attending people now think and many church leaders, authors and speakers would now contend? In the first part of 1 Corinthians 15, Paul helps us to understand this issue more thoroughly.
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The Corinthian church was obsessed with spiritual gifts. They loved to see God in action, working supernaturally in their lives. Spiritual gifts are good, but the Corinthians were imbalanced. They focused on the outward signs of God’s Spirit but neglected His inward work in their hearts. In 1 Corinthians 12 – 14, Paul gives an extended teaching on the topic of spiritual gifts. Here in the middle of that, in Chapter 13, he tells them what they should make their highest priority.
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Perhaps the biggest problem in the Corinthian Church was disunity. This disunity came out in any number of ways, but these were mostly symptoms of one core fault: The church in Corinth as a group did not value each member’s place within the church. Paul takes on this problem of disunity by comparing the church to a body, specifically, the body of Christ. He explains that the body is composed of people who all have differing spiritual gifts.