I Have Some Concerns
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13 So in what way are you worse off than the other churches, except that I personally did not burden you? Forgive me for this wrong! 14 Look, I am ready to come to you this third time. I will not burden you, since I am not seeking what is yours, but you. For children ought not save up for their parents, but parents for their children. 15 I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less? 16 Now granted, I did not burden you; yet sly as I am, I took you in by deceit! 17 Did I take advantage of you by any of those I sent you? 18 I urged Titus to go, and I sent the brother with him. Titus didn’t take advantage of you, did he? Didn’t we walk in the same spirit and in the same footsteps? 19 Have you been thinking all along that we were defending ourselves to you? No, in the sight of God we are speaking in Christ, and everything, dear friends, is for building you up. 20 For I fear that perhaps when I come I will not find you to be what I want, and you may not find me to be what you want. Perhaps there will be quarreling, jealousy, angry outbursts, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder. 21 I fear that when I come my God will again humiliate me in your presence, and I will grieve for many who sinned before and have not repented of the moral impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality they practiced.
No sacrifice is too great for the sake of the gospel… including giving of yourself.
No sacrifice is too great for the sake of the gospel… including giving of yourself.
Paul said that he “gladly spend and be spent”
We need to pursue people not possessions or popularity.
We need to pursue people not possessions or popularity.
Paul wasn’t coming to collect their money but to see them.
Speaking truth, even when it’s hard shouldn’t be avoided.
Speaking truth, even when it’s hard shouldn’t be avoided.
Some thing speaking truth is being judgmental but it is actually being loving.
The purpose of calling out sin is to build you up.
We must take a look at the health of our spiritual walk.
We must take a look at the health of our spiritual walk.
Church, small group or home - are there issues?
It is ok to look at things and say “I have some concerns.”
Don’t mistake external order for internal purity.
Don’t mistake external order for internal purity.
Just because you look like it or you are playing the part well does not mean things are right
