Boundaries & Blessings | Sermon Series
Week 1 : Grey Areas
What if the boundaries you're avoiding are actually the blessings you're looking for? In this first message of "Boundaries and Blessings," Abel opens 1 Corinthians 10 to unpack five simple questions for making wise decisions - in money, sex, and power - from a place of true freedom.
Week 2: Money
How much money do you actually want to have? It's a strange question, but it cuts right to the heart of what we treasure, fear, and hope in. In this message from 1 Corinthians 15:54–16:3, Abel talks about Paul's teachings on the resurrection and on financial giving. If we know we've been given everything in Christ, it changes how we hold what we have here on earth.
Week 3: Sex
What does the Bible say about sex? In this sermon, Jacintha preaches from 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 and 7:1-7 to provide a framework on how to approach the subject of sex. The encouragement for anyone struggling with regard to sex or their sexuality is that hope, healing, freedom, and fulfilment can be found in the person of Jesus.
Week 4: Power
What does it look like to use power wisely? In this message, Pete Wynter preaches from 1 Corinthians 12 and explores what God reveals about himself through the story of his people and how that shapes the way we understand power, identity, and the battles we face. Even in the unseen battles of our lives, we can have confidence because the greatest battle has already been won by Christ.
Alvin Adds
Hi all, we're back with another sermon series, this time on a Biblical book, 1 Corinthians! It can feel daunting leading this Biblical book, but I encourage you to lean into being curious with your group. You may not know all the answers to your group's questions, and that's ok! Feel free to engage the group in exploring the questions together, and focus as a leader on creating a warm safe space where these questions, and most importantly their lives, can be explored.
Some practical tips to help make that happen:
1. Find a middle way in your group between being too dictating ("You cannot do that") and being too free ("Everything is OK"), by first asking the room, then giving gentle guidance.
2. Being vulnerable about your personal life helps your members be vulnerable about theirs, and helps bring the discussion from theory to their lives.
3. Move towards a call to action/challenge for the week that they can pray for each other for.
Recommended Bible Study: 1 Corinthians
No better time to start a Bible study with your CG than with the launch of this series! Getting your CG members to read 4 chapters a week will bring them through all 16 chapters by the end of the month! Alternatively, you can do a deep dive of 1 chapter a week which will take you nicely to December! The Bible Project (https://bibleproject.com/) is always a great resource for overviews and more information on 1 Corinthians.