Sermon 10-23-11 "Status and Love"

How do you live in a culture obsessed with status? The Corinthian church lived in a culture of self-promotion, driven by an intense need for power and control. Paul sets forth “Christ crucified” – the release of need for power, control, and status. With a new status comes a new value system where status is bestowed, not made. Under the new status comes a new approach to love, service, gifts, sex, worship, and hope.

Today we look at how the new status in Christ animates a revolutionary view of love toward others.

"Love ain't love until you give it up." Eddie Vedder

“This is why love is a virtue. It is a language to be learned, a musical instrument to be practiced, a mountain to be climbed via some steep and tricky cliff paths but with the most amazing view from the top. It is one of the things that will last; one of the traits of character which provides a genuine anticipation of that complete humanness we are promised in the End.” N.T. Wright

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