1 Corinthians 5

⁶ Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? ⁷ Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

I like this simple clear illustration of how a little evil will impact the entire body.  In today's world the desire to include everyone creates a dangerous situation where in some cases even the church body has consciously chosen to ignore some of Gods rules.   The outcome will be bad, the entire body will be damaged.

1 Corinthians 4

This one is dealing with arrogance in the leadership of the church.
My take from this is to continue to be humble, and remember who I am serving, when I'm working for the church.  My position means nothing.  Its all about serving God.  Not that I'm doing anything that would cause me to be arrogant......hahahaha....right?
I could see if I was a great singer, or guitar player, and I was playing on Sunday mornings.....I could start thinking that I'm "all that", as people are telling me how talented I am.
I get it.  Its all good.

1 Corinthians 3

⁶ I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.


Today I thought this should make it easier to share God with others.  We just plant and water the seeds (or share His word and serve others is how I was thinking about it), he makes them grow.  In fact, we have no power to make them grow on our own or make people become followers of Christ--its not even our job.

1 Corinthians 2

¹⁴ The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

Sheesh!  that completely describes some of my friends.  They look at me like I'm nuts.  I'm not sayin the spirit isn't with em, or without em.....but, that makes total sense to me.  Have you ever been in one of those conversations about faith, where everything you say makes the person roll their eyes?  But it seems very logical to you?  I have...........

1 Corinthians

I thought I'd keep going with Paul.

²⁶ Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. ²⁷ But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.

I like this one......cause it speaks to the idea that God can/and will use anyone and everyone.  You don't have to be someone of great stature or intelligence.  (that last one, I like real good)

God can you me....if i'll listen and let him.

Romans 16

Greetings.....that's mostly what the chapter talks about.

My take from this one is how fragile the church was back then, and how fragile it can be now.  It talks about not being fooled by people with malcontent.  They are self serving.  I can see that being a tremendous disruption to what the church is trying to do.  If everyone isn't pulling the rope in the same direction....its gonna get messy.

I can't believe we packed up another chapter.
We didn't quite do it cleanly.  I think we missed more days in this one than normal.......but as long as we keep truckin' and don't give up....its all good.

we need to figure out where we are going next.

Romans 15

Not sure I pulled much from this one.  Maybe its the rain outside