We continue with 1 Corinthians 6
In fact, to have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? But you yourselves wrong and defraud - and believers at that. (1 Cor. 6:7-8)
So what is the difference between those in the Church and others? Is there no difference? Well, if we see our life within Christ as a life that is to come...after death...at another time...then, of course, we will live just like the world. Also, if our trust in Jesus - our faith - is seen as being a individual experience, we may quickly lose any need for the corporate life - except for what it can keep telling me about what will happen to me. When we look just like the rest of the world...what is the saving power that is granted to us...where is the saving life into which we are pulled and into which we invite others?!?
Connection: Without thinking in terms of lives bound up by an endless list of things to "do" and "not do", what life are we blessed to enter as we call ourselves followers of Jesus?
Sometimes, Lord God, we will do whatever we will do to take hold and run our lives just as we want them to be...for us. In that journey, life can turn as ugly as the ugliness of our world. Save us for something new just as you have promised. Amen.
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