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• Entice: I have mentioned many times that my goal in this series has been to take words written to Roman Corinth and to show you how they are valid in 21c Grayville.
In 1 Corinthians culture, social structure, and status are not mere background issues.
They are often crucial for understanding the conflict which had erupted between Paul and some of the individuals whom he had led to Christ, in a Church he had founded.
Engage: In this text there are three central cultural issues:
• Patronage as a cultural-economic organizing principle in Roman Society.
• The mixed nature of the city and church: Jew, Roman, Greek, and "aliens" from Asia (Barbarians) worshipping together.
• The Isthmian games.
Every two years the second largest games in the world to the Olympics.
Money and prestige.
Expand: The specific issues are not the same.
The central question remains.
Are we willing surrender our rights, to advance the Gospel?
Are we willing to follow the path of Jesus, the path of humility and sacrifice, even when it is personally painful?
Paul was.
That heart of this passage.
Explore:
The Gospel frees us from the tyranny of our selves.
Explain: Paul helps us to clarify how we see our. . .
1 Obligations
Patronage pride and cultural expectation in Corinth.
• A patron sought out clients to bring them prestige.
similar circumstances pertain today.
Many owners of sports franchises, galleries, and concert venues have little interest in the sport played, art displayed, or material performed.
They pay money to build their reputation.
Athletes, artists, teachers, philosophers, poets were "on the payroll of the elites" in Roman Corinth.
This is why Paul renounced his own Biblical right to be compensated for ministry.
• Rights vs. responsibilities
They were at odds.
Paul had an obligation to the Gospel.
His response to this challenge encapsulates a principle which is still valid though the circumstances are completely different.
When our rights and our responsibilities are in conflict our responsibilities hold the trump card
Euchre.
Me at a progressive Euchre party.
I had never played the game before.
I am not a good card player to begin with.
As we made our way up the snowy street to the party Mrs. Beckman explained the basics about cards, trump, bowers, and "ordering up."
I misheard.
I liked the idea of trump because it seemed like unrestrained freedom!
It was the ultimate expression of my rights as a card player to determine the highest cards for that hand.
I will never forget the look in the eyes of one of my Elders when I ordered him up and then proceeded to take no tricks!
What I had missed was that the right to determine trump had to be balanced by the responsibility to take tricks.
If you ordered the dealer up (particularly if the dealer was your partner!) you were saying "I've got this."
Too many believers, echoing the sentiment of our culture are far too eager to claim rights without balancing those rights with responsibilities.
Next Paul helps us to clarify how we see…
2 Opportunities
Real opportunities require...
Flexibility
Real opportunities tend to bring...
Discomfort
Finally Paul helps us to clarify how we see...
3 Outcomes.
The Right outcomes are a product of
Discipline
The right outcomes require
Focus
Shut Down:
• The Gospel is bigger than us.
Bigger than egos which seek prestige through the compromise of others.
Bigger than the comforts and rigidity which often prevent us
from seizing opportunities to change the lives of others.
Bigger than the small outcomes you have envisioned and I have envisioned for our own lives.
• When Jesus gets a hold of us the negatives become positives, the risks yield rewards and the sacrifices can change someone else's eternity.
• We often hear the phrase…It's not about me.
It can be easy to say and hard to do.
Paul has just mapped out a strategy for doing it.
That is God's Word for us
today.
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