This Sunday, January 22, is the Third Sunday after the Epiphany.
Verse of the Epiphany Season:
This week’s sermon is Follow Me
This week’s readings are:
Unity – 1 Corinthians 12:12-31
A Lament – the divisions within the church.
Root of the
matter – Word.
Essence
of Christianity – Morality? Ethics? Gospel? Justification? Grace?
Nagel
– “Who does the verbs?”
Sacraments – the Embodied Word.
Everyone who believes Jesus is the Christ (savior) – that
foundational spiritual gift – is part of the body of Christ.
Jesus’s
salvation links.
The Holy Spirit is our common bond.
Love for our fellow Christians.
Telling the
truth.
“Gentleness
and Respect”
For
our brothers and sisters in Christ.
For
God’s Work in and through our brothers and sisters in Christ.
Do
we trust God’s promise and Word?
There
is only one body.
Apostles’ Creed – “one holy, Christian, apostolic church.”
From the Universal Church to the Congregation
Hopefully
the closer we get to the congregational level we get the more outwardly united
we are
Doctrine
Mutual
Support
Worship
Aesthetic
Mission and Purpose
Simil – same time saint and sinner.
Corresponds to the unity of body of Christ
Outwardly divided
Another truth – promised,
proclaimed, and confessed – united in Christ.
Final hope – Jesus sets all things
right in the end.
Until then we live by faith and
confess our sins in repentance.
“He who has begun a good work in us
….”
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