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Pop Quiz!
Please close your text books and take out a #2 pencil.
I will be passing out Scantrons.
Did you ever have that dream where you have a test, maybe a final and you didn’t study… or you didn’t even know you were enrolled in the class until that day.
And you arrive for the exam and you are completely unprepared???
Congratulations: I just made your dreams come true!
You’re welcome.
Let’s test your knowledge and memory of 1 Corinthians.
Is he really going to give us a test?
Yes.
Because that’s fun.
Question 1: Why should a woman have a “symbol of authority” on her head?
Answer: Because of the angels.
Question 2: Paul wishes everyone’s FaceBook relationship status is?
Answer: Single.
Question 3: What sexual immorality is reported among the Corinthian church?
Answer: A man sleeping with his father’s wife.
Gross.
There’s a lot going on in this book.
Paul addresses some big issues: divisiveness, and sexual immorality, and marriage and food, and spiritual gifts and love.
So here, at the end, let’s make sure not to get lost in the details.
Let’s remember how we started.
Intro to Corinthians
Remember way back in January when we started this book.
Why did we do it?
The Corinthian church was figuring out how to be a church.
But they were starting to reflect the culture around them.
We have been given a beautiful opportunity to rediscover anew how to be the Church of Jesus, the Body of Christ.
The temple of the Holy Spirit in an increasingly non-Christian world.
And there’s a lot of detail in here, but we can boil it down real simple.
Last week we had a simple 5 point - 5 finger list:
Recap:
Watch out
Stand up
Man up
Get strong
Love always
Turns out we can get even simpler if we need to.
Here’s the answer to all the real questions on the exam.
How do we live as Victorious Awesome Christians who are the Church and bring Glory to God?
Love God, Love People.
How do we “do” church right?
Love God, Love People.
Who does this apply to?
Yes.
We want to unpack that, right.
How do we love God? See the rest of Scripture.
How do we love people?
See the rest of the story, people doing it well and not so well throughout the Bible.
That’s the detail work.
But this is our interpretive lens, our two greatest commandments, upon which all the law and prophets hang.
Love God, Love People.
Here at the very end of 1 Corinthians, Paul points to this in others, models it himself, and commands it to the church.
Leadership
First he points this out in the emerging leaders in Corinth.
How does one become a leader in the church?
Great example:
The whole household of Stephanas.
(Pretty awesome history of Steves in the Bible).
They devoted themselves to serving God’s people.
Sounds like servants?
And yet, Paul says to:
“be subject to such as these.”
What do you do when you are looking for leaders?
What should we be doing in the near future when we are looking for additional leaders in roles in our church?
Look for the people “devoted to the service of the saints” and “be subject to them.”
That means to submit yourselves to their leadership.
And further, “give recognition to such people.”
Because they show that they are loving big, loving for real, finding ways to serve and just serving.
Does it say “find the people who name and claim the title?” “Take a survey of who wants to lead?” Or even “ask them if they want to lead?”
Nope.
Just “submit yourselves to them.”
That looks like this: Hey, I see you devoting yourself: you are doing awesome things.
I want to do like you do.
I’m going to make you the boss of me in this area of life.
In this ministry.
In this service.
Which brings us to something more important than “Leadership”.
Follower-ship
There is a whole lot of work on “Leadership Development” and improving leaders and raising up leaders… and that is important.
But in MOST contexts of life ALL of us aren’t leaders, we are followers.
At the very least, in absolutely all contexts we are followers of Jesus.
Which means the thing we should be really beautifully great at is submitting ourselves.
We should be the best at that.
We are not, so much.
But that is all of our responsibility… and it is radically counter-cultural to (a version of) the American dream of individual greatness.
Not “be all you can be” but “submit yourself wholly to Jesus.”
And find people who can inspire you and lead you to devote yourself to loving God and loving others… and submit yourself to them.
Follow me as I follow Stephanas as he follows Paul as he follows Jesus.
Love Others
But hear the great love Paul calls us to, and the great love he models for the church.
For the saints.
For men and women he just loves!
Listen: he loves those dudes!
And the churches where he is pastoring now, in Ephesus, which is in Asia Minor, they want in on the love:
Paul’s likely living with Aquila and Prisca at this time.
“Prisca” is a cute little nickname for Priscilla.
Imagine them yelling in from the other room, making tents, while Paul’s on Zoom with Corinth.
“Heeeey!
Love you!”
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