June 6, 2022
Church 101 | Grace and Peace
The church at Corinth gives us a glimpse into how the Kingdom landed and found shape in a rather typical First Century Roman city. There was nothing exceptional about the Corinthian church: just believers trying to learn how to walk out of familiar kingdoms of darkness and walk into the Kingdom of Light.
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1 Corinthians 1:1-9
Message Questions:
- Do you have a story about deserving punishment but instead receiving grace? Tell that story.
- Being “called” is a big part of this passage (see vv.1, 2, 9). In what way are you “called?”
- How would you explain grace, particularly God’s grace, to a friend who doesn’t share your Christian hope?
- In what ways were the Corinthian believers ‘enriched’ by God? In what ways have you/we been “enriched in every way?”
- What does it mean to you that on the day Jesus returns you will be declared “blameless?” How does that assurance affect the way live your life?
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