Misunderstandings!

1 Corinthians 3: 3  NLT

You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other. Doesn’t that prove you are controlled by your sinful nature? Aren’t you living like people of the world?

I don’t know about you, but there sure seems like there are a lot of politics in the church today.

Dietrich Bonheoffer once said: "Politics are not the task of a Christian."

That doesn’t mean we can’t have good, concrete discussions in the church, but sometimes discussions get out of hand.

Even Jesus went through some trials, and the people in the church were the culprits.

Sometimes we forget that, don’t we?

It was for my sins, and for your sins, that Jesus was punished and condemned.

If you had been an observer in the crowd that day, would you have turned on Jesus too?

No sense trying to dodge that question. I think we all know what the real answer is.

The God of the Bible has higher thoughts than our thoughts.

Our limited understanding is so often classified as misunderstanding, of God’s purposes and plans.

Who have you misunderstood lately in your church?

I assume you’ve gone to them personally, and tried to work things out, haven’t you?

Maybe the reason we’re not seeing people saved in the church we attend, is that we’re acting too much like the world.

Maybe there’s too much quarreling going on, and not enough praying in agreement…