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A Message on Love for Weddings and Wednesdays (1 Corinthians 13:1-13) | Imperfect (K)

Although this text is most commonly associated with weddings Paul’s instruction here is not limited to how husbands and wives ought to love one another. In this chapter Paul is laying out a definition of love that is meant to be applied not only to how believers relate to their spouses but in all their relationships.

Sermon Notes:

• When we get this chapter right, it distinguishes the church from every institution, agency or community that exists and marks us as true disciples of Jesus!
• Love is not merely the importance of the spiritual gift we have, or even our excellence in using that gift.
• People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care!
• When pride shows up love disappears!
• Love delights to see truth triumph and celebrates when truth wins out.
  • Choose a couple of the traits in vs. 4-7 and start living them out.
  • Make it a practice to love the person right in front of you.
  • Loving this way requires Spirit filled living, it’s not done in our own strength.

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Community, Conscience and Conflict (1 Corinthians 10:23-11:1) | Imperfect Series (K)

Imagine a community of people that all functioned with this phrase as their motto: “Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.” Imagine how radically different that type of community would look in a world that trumpets “do what makes you happy.” Community isn’t easy, we are different people coming together with different backgrounds, different personalities, different perspectives. The only way we are ever going to be the church community that God desires us to be is by living lives that have as their goal God’s glory and our neighbours good.

Sermon Notes:

• Is what I am doing building others up or causing them to stumble? vs. 23-30
• Is what I’m doing bringing glory to God?  vs. 31
• Is what I am doing pointing people to Jesus or away from Him?  vs. 32-33
• Am I following the selfless, sacrificial example of Jesus in how I live before others?  vs. 11:1

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Fill us With Your Fullness (Ephesians 3:14-21)

In Ephesians 3:14-21 Paul prays an incredible prayer over this church that he loves. He cries out to God to strengthen them, to dwell in their hearts through faith, to root and establish them in His love in order that they would be “filled with the measure of all the fulness of God.”
Why is that dangerous? Because a body of believers, built up in the truth of the gospel, filled with the Holy Spirit such that they are filled with the measure of all the fulness of God” is a church that is dangerous. It’s the type of church that makes the Devil nervous because it’s the type of church against which the gates of Hell won’t prevail. It’s the type of church our region, our province, our nation needs. Lets pray God would make us that type of church.