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The following story is an example of how to not get people to keep coming to church, you do this and they aren’t going to listen to you share the Gospel either:
An elderly woman walked into the local country church.
The friendly usher greeted her at the door and helped her up the flight of steps.
“Where would you like to sit?” he asked politely.
“The front row please.”
she answered.
“You really don’t want to do that”, the usher said, “The pastor is really boring.”
“Do you happen to know who I am?” the woman inquired.
“No.” he said.
“I’m the pastor’s mother,” she replied indignantly.
“Do you know who I am?” he asked.
“No.” she said.
“Good,” he said.
Historical/Cultural Context -
Paul preached the gospel in Corinth in the early 50s AD during his second missionary journey (Acts 18:1–18).
When opposition grew fierce there, the Lord Jesus spoke to him in a vision assuring him that he had ‘many people’ in the city (Acts 18:10).
With this encouragement, Paul stayed on for eighteen months, ‘teaching them the word of God’ (Acts 18:11).
God used Paul’s ministry to bring about the birth and establishment of the church in Corinth.
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Life Principle - We Are To Reach The Lost Any Way Possible & Be Willing to Be God’s Broken Vessels
Life Point- Reach The Lost
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First of all when Paul talks about being a servant, that is a weak translation.
The actual word here means “to become a slave of all men.
The term slavery here is not what we have in mind when we think of slavery.
He has in mind that of 1st century slavery.
Which was nowhere near as brutal as what we think about.
Oh there was some brutality, but just not as brutal.
There were times when people would sell themselves into slavery.
The number one reason is that they owed quite a bit of money and could not pay.
The second reason is due to social standing.
They could have a higher status as a slave of someone rich and powerful than they could as a non-citizen of Rome.
To be a citizen of Rome was not automatic as it is today in our country.
They had a lot of hoops to jump through and had to have sponsors as well as the wealth to make it happen.
Being a slave was still no bed of roses.
Your family could be split, you could be sold, you could be beaten for not doing your work.
That being said, generally the brutality was nothing like that of the African Slave Trade.
Paul was not only a freed man, but he had Roman Citizenry conferred on him because his father was a Roman Citizen.
To beat a Roman citizen when they were not guilty of any charge was a huge problem indeed.
Non-Romans, you could beat them, but a Roman citizen had rights that others did not.
So, for Paul to call himself a slave was not only scandalous but downright disgusting in most people’s minds.
We know that Paul called himself a slave of Christ many times, but here he says he is a slave to all men, even though he is free.
What in the world is he talking about here?
The mistake we make as Americanized Christians is that we confuse our traditions, and yes we have them, with the Gospel.
So, what is the Gospel?
That Jesus, was virgin born.
Lived a sinless life.
Died on a Roman cross for your sins and on the third day Rose again.
Declaring He is the victor over death, hell and the grave.
That is the Gospel.
That is the main thing.
You get that right and everything else will fall into place.
We should not try to change a culture to match ours so long as that culture isn’t displaying immorality.
In other words, if the people we are trying to reach believe that your hair has to be blue or you can’t talk to them, then by all means dye your hair blue!
If the people we are trying to reach want to wear shorts to church, let them wear shorts.
We are trying to reach sinners not trying to steal sheep.
Now when the church was young there was much disagreement about what parts of the tradition and law that the Gentiles should keep, but it came down to the following.
This particular group of believers asked the question on whether they needed circumcision or not to be believers.
The answer was no.
You see the Holy Spirit had already given the signs of being a believer just as He did the Jews of that time, so if God has accepted them then so does the church and the Apostles.
notice that they said, for this group, it seemed good to them to not lay on them any other burdens than what they just wrote.
It was so simple that they simply said.
If you do that you will do well.
In other words, do what we said and you should be good to go living before God.
Farewell.
No big list of rules, no Pentateuch (Which is the first five books of the Bible written by Moses), no Torah.
No traditions of men.
Just, we think if you do these things you should be good togo.
Speaking of reaching sinners.
You can’t expect people whom are unsaved to act like they are saved.
You can’t expect a new convert to have it all figured out either.
But when we do get new converts, new disciples lets not put on them any more than what is required.
Let’s not substitute the Gospel and the work of the Spirit of God in their lives for our traditions of man.
It is man’s traditions that stifles the power of God.
We get all caught up in what we can do and what we can’t do that we take our eyes off of Jesus and stifle God’s Word.
The following is an example that Jesus gave:
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I was raised you must wear pants to church.
You must always look your best.
When I was a teen and called to the ministry, a minister kind of took me under his wing.
I saw someone, a teenager, come to church with shorts on.
It really bothered me, so I said to him “I am going to let him know that isn’t appropriate.”
He stopped me and said.
Is he a Christian?
I said I didn’t know, but kind of doubted it.
He replied, “Let’s be more concerned about his eternal destiny and let the Holy Spirit work on him about his shorts.”
Did you know that when evangelical missionaries made it to India that they found it offensive for the missionary women to not be dressed in the traditional way?
Did you know that because of that, many people would not listen to them when it came to the Gospel?
The knew this and rather than have the women wear traditional Indian clothing, they stuck with their own traditions.
Then one day a woman came over who ended up dressing like them and low and behold the Gospel started to take hold there.
Yet she was still getting in trouble with the government there because she reached out to all castes and not just one.
Indians during that time had a very, very strict and restrictive caste system.
It was the root of the Gospel taking hold that began to undermine the caste system and eventually do away with it.
Just as the Gospel began to undermine the slave trade and eventually it was abolished.
Life Point - Be God’s Broken Vessel
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Why would Paul.
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