HOW WE HELP EACH OTHER GROW UP
1 Corinthians 3.1-9
1 Corinthians: Unified By The Crucified – Part 6 of 11
v. 1 “But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.” (esv)
GROWING UP REQUIRES US TO ALLOW GOD’S WORD TO …
REPLACE The World’s Explanatory Framework
v. 3 “… are you not worldly and behaving like mere humans?” (csb)
v. 2 “I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.” (niv)
Acts 20.27 “I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God.” (niv)
v. 4 “When one says, ‘I follow Paul’ … are you not being merely human?” (esv)
Colossians 3.16 “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly …” (esv)
DISPLACE Man From The Center Of Our Story
vv. 5 & 7 “What then is Apollos? What is Paul? … neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.” (esv)
v. 5 “Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task.” (niv)
v. 8 “The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose …” (niv)
v. 8b “… each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.” (nas)
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