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3 1 Corinthians 1:10-2:16

4 "Our world is like a convoy lost in darkness on an unknown rocky coast, with quarreling pirates in the chart room and savages climbing up the sides of the ship to plunder and do evil as the whim may take them. Where is the Captain? The ship is driving for the rocks, and man cannot stop it." -H. G. Wells

5 1 Corinthians 1:10-2:16 Our unity in Christ depends on: 1. Our commitment to the Lordship of Christ

6 There is no more integrating Christian principle than the affirmation Jesus Christ is Lord'. It is of the essence of integrated discipleship that we both confess his lordship with our lips and enthrone him as Lord in our hearts. We assume the easy yoke of his teaching authority. We seek to take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ'. And when Jesus is Lord of our beliefs, opinions, ambitions, standards, values and lifestyle, then we are integrated Christians, since then integrity' marks our life. Only when he is Lord do we become whole. --John Stott

7 If the world around us saw the problems of its own animosities, divisions and deprivations solved in the microcosm of the local church, we would need no more special evangelistic efforts, for the life of the church would be like the light of a city set on a hill which cannot be hidden. -- J. A. Motyer

8 1 Corinthians 1:10-2:16 Our unity in Christ depends on: 2. The centrality of the cross of Christ in our theology

9 When we look at the cross we see the justice, love, wisdom and power of God. It is not easy to decide which is the most luminously revealed, whether the justice of God in judging sin, or the love of God in bearing the judgment in our place, or the wisdom of God in perfectly combining the two, or the power of God in saving those who believe. For the cross is equally an act, and therefore a demonstration, of God's justice, love, wisdom and power. The cross assures us that this God is the reality within, behind and beyond the universe. --John Stott

10 The cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost. --N.T. Wright

11 The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ, where the Father gave the Son to die so that the spiritually dead might have life. --J. I. Packer, Rediscovering Holiness

12 Just as the only basis for the removal of our guilt is the finished work of Christ upon the cross in history, plus nothing, so the only instrument for accepting that finished work of Christ upon the cross is faith." --Francis Schaeffer, True Spirituality

13 1 Corinthians 1:10-2:16 Our unity in Christ depends on: 3. Faith in the fool s wisdom of the Gospel of Jesus Christ

14 All the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word. --Socrates

15 Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. --Charles H. Spurgeon

16 "Historians will conclude that we of the 20th century had the genius to create a great civilization, But we lacked the moral wisdom to preserve it" -- A.W. Tozer

17 The essential condition of receiving light from heaven is not sophistication, however, but simplicity. For the Lord of the universe has hidden these things from the wise and learned', Jesus said, and revealed them to little children' (Mt. 11:25). --John Stott