How to be 100% Right and Still be Wrong (1 Corinthians 8:1-13) | Imperfect Series

Our culture puts a high value on rights and freedoms and rights and freedoms are a good thing, but they aren’t the ultimate thing. In Christ we have been set free, but Christian freedom is not to be rooted in individual autonomy but love. If we use our rights and freedoms in a way that causes our brothers and sisters in Christ to sin, even though our actions may not be sinful our attitude and posture are. It is possible to be 100% right on our doctrine and still be wrong. If we win the argument without loving our brothers or sisters we’ve still lost.Our culture puts a high value on rights and freedoms and rights and freedoms are a good thing, but they aren’t the ultimate thing. In Christ we have been set free, but Christian freedom is not to be rooted in individual autonomy but love. If we use our rights and freedoms in a way that causes our brothers and sisters in Christ to sin, even though our actions may not be sinful our attitude and posture are. It is possible to be 100% right on our doctrine and still be wrong. If we win the argument without loving our brothers or sisters we’ve still lost.

Sermon Notes:

• You can be 100% right and still be wrong. 
• Knowledge is not the measure of Christian maturity, love is. 
• If you get your theology right but you fail to love you are still wrong. 
• Being right isn’t what makes you righteous, Jesus is what makes you righteous. 
• We need to care more about others than we care about our rights. 
• Instead of asking “is it allowed?” we should ask “does it build up?”