Queen's Road Cell

1 Cor 9:1-18 is Paul’s defence of his apostleship to a difficult church. He insists from commonsense (v.7-8), Scripture (v.8-10), natural justice(v.11-12) and Jewish custom (v.13) that he is totally entitled to material support from the Corinthians. However, he refuses to exercise this right, and takes pains to ensure that mentioning his right is not misunderstood as an attempt to exercise it. He is concerned for the purity of the gospel, which must not be sullied by greed on the part of the preacher. He will never be put in a position where his integrity is compromised by accusations of personal gain by his preaching (v.15). He will “boast” that he can present the gospel free of charge. Here we made a note that boasting is not necessarily a bad thing. Boasting that takes glory away from God and directs it to ourselves is wrong (1 Co 1:29), but boasting about one’s weaknesses to glorify God’s provision (1 ), God’s people (2 Co 1:14), and our ministry enabled by God (Ro 15:17ff) is

I asked how we might respond to this meme: My thought is that an adequate Christian response will not be immediately obvious, because, factually speaking, the meme is not incorrect. However, it presents God/Jesus as unreasonable and demanding. The implication is that all would be well if only He did not knock to be ask to be let in. In the first place, the verse (Rev 3:20) to which the picture refers is directed to a church (i.e. Christians, not to non-Christians). The Bible presents not only a picture of invitation to be saved, but also of the sovereign power and right of God to save. The main wrong assumption involved in this meme is that mankind is perfectly fine when left alone by God. The meme does not acknowledge the grave sin of man against God that justifies our condemnation. So mankind is not in a neutral position - we are already condemned (Jn 3:18), and God the righteous Judge reaches out in mercy to extend salvation to us. Grace asked on behalf of her youth cell

Scripture Text — Acts 2:47b 47b   And the Lord added to their number   daily those who were being saved. Good morning church. I would like to thank Pastor Daniel for the privilege to share God’s word today. The title that was given is “Small groups – for Saving Life”, at this point I do wish that someone would save my life, now this is because my sermon today may not exactly fit with the title, but I hope that afterwards, Pastor Daniel would still spare my life. Let’s now pray before we begin. Before we begin, let me ask - who wrote the book of Acts? Correct, the author is Luke and we can tell because in the book of Luke (written by Luke), he states in Luke 1:3 “ to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus ” and in Acts 1:1, the author starts off by stating “ In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach” . So this helps us to see the author of Acts is most likely Luke. Now Acts is considered a historical nar