Am I Allowed To Do that?

Story about asking if something was ok or not

Some allege that whatever is not expressly forbidden is allowed in religious practice. Others contend that anything not authorized is not permitted. Is there any validity to the argument from silence?

Principles are being brought out of food issues

There is in this paragraph a grand principle that beautifully expresses the main purpose of all Christians. Paul has been pressing this truth throughout 1 Cor

Lexham Context Commentary: New Testament Conclusions about Food Offered to Idols (10:23–11:1)

10:31 Paul explains the grand principle of Christian living and the chief purpose of all life. No matter what Christians choose to do, whether it be godly activities or neutral ones (such as eating certain foods), they must have an overarching goal: to glorify God.

The main things explicitly forbidden in Christianity are idolatry, murder, theft, adultery, sexual immorality, lust, greed, slander, and witchcraft

300 Illustrations for Preachers Eating Cheese Pizza for 25 Years

Eating Cheese Pizza for 25 Years

Genesis 1:29; 9:3; Proverbs 15:17; Daniel 1:8–15; 1 Corinthians 6:19–20; 10:31

Preaching Themes: Healing

Dan Janssen lives on a daily diet of cheese pizza, and has for 25 years. Janssen ate your average meat and potatoes diet until he was 14, when he became a vegetarian. Alas, he found out he didn’t like vegetables. That’s when he stumbled across the cheese pizza diet, and he’s been eating it ever since—for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. When he was in college, he even worked at Domino’s. Janssen says, “If I could say anything to the men of the world, it’s you can do it. You can eat two 14-inch pizzas a day and be fine.”

However, change may be on the horizon for Dan. His fiancée is gently nudging him to widen his culinary horizons, and he is seeing a nutritionist about his extreme eating habits. “I do see a day in the future when I get a little more adventurous,” he said.

—Jim L. Wilson and Ron Williams

300 Illustrations for Preachers Righteous for Being Green?

Righteous for Being Green?

Luke 18:9–14; 1 Corinthians 10:31; Titus 3:5

Preaching Themes: Righteousness, Legalism

A 2010 study by Canadian psychologists found that people who purchase environmentally friendly items feel a “moral glow” that makes them more likely to cheat and act selfishly elsewhere in their lives. In the study, which was a computer game, subjects rewarded themselves with money based on certain results. “Green” consumers were more likely to lie about test results so that they could take more money. The explanation for this is that acting virtuously in one area seems to make people feel they have earned “credit,” and now they have a license to act unethically and selfishly in other parts of their lives.

Our lives are to be an open book before the Lord. Because we are righteous in one area doesn’t give us license to fail to live for God’s glory in every other area.

—Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell

1 Corinthians 4:6 ESV

I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.

#1 do all to the glory of God-Sin is seen as what makes me miserable not what offends the glory of God. Our view of sin today is basically psychological not theological.

John Piper, Sermons from John Piper (1980–1989) (Minneapolis, MN: Desiring God, 2007).

#2Give no offense-dont encourage sin in their lives, do not give temptation to sin

#3 try to please everyone in everything=you must please God first, this is speaking about in God’s will =Rather than telling people the truth they want to make people happy and tell them false things they want to hear.

You can’t serve God and always be a people-pleaser. Like Leonard Raven Hill said, “If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.”

#4. Not seek your own advantage=have a new mind set

#5 Imitate Christ= closely examine the life and ministry of Jesus