This sermon continues the series based on 1Corinthians.
Reputation matters.
Should the world see the church differently? Should the world see conflict resolved inside the church differently? People outside the church treated differently?
Or is “church” behavior only for when things go well?
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, “But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you…” The willingness of Corinthians Christians to pursue lawsuits against fellow Christians illustrates that people will naturally pursue what they feel they deserve, even against fellow Christians.
But what does that say to the world around us?
And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 6:11 (NIV)