Sunday, February 28, 2010

1 Corinthians 3:1-15... with a twist



1 Corinthians 3

1-4But for right now, friends, I'm completely frustrated by your unspiritual dealings with each other and with God. You're acting like infants in relation to Christ, capable of nothing much more than nursing at the breast. Well, then, I'll nurse you since you don't seem capable of anything more. As long as you grab for what makes you feel good or makes you look important, are you really much different than a babe at the breast, content only when everything's going your way? When one of you says, "I'm on Luther's side," and another says, "I'm for Calvin," aren't you being totally infantile?

5-9Who do you think John MacArthur is, anyway? Or Brian McLaren, for that matter? Servants, both of them—servants who waited on you as you gradually learned to entrust your lives to our mutual Master. We each carried out our servant assignment. Augustine planted the seed, Rob Bell watered the plants, but God made you grow. It's not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who makes things grow. Planting and watering are menial servant jobs at minimum wages. What makes them worth doing is the God we are serving. You happen to be God's field in which we are working.

9-15Or, to put it another way, you are God's house. Using the gift God gave me as a good architect, Calvin designed blueprints; Brian McLaren is putting up the walls. Let each carpenter who comes on the job take care to build on the foundation! Remember, there is only one foundation, the one already laid: Jesus Christ. (A twist on The Message)


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1 comment:

Unknown said...

Awesome. Love the way you think.....the contextualization is a great juxtaposition. Keep it up.