Bible Reflections From Scripture Union Volume OneSample

And They’ll Know We are Christians…
Read 1 Corinthians 6:1-20

…you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. 1 Corinthians 6:20

Again, Paul’s primary concern here is not so much with the individual ‘sinners’ and ‘sins’, but with the attitude of the church towards sin.

Paul applies the principle of the church not judging those ‘outside’ but only those ‘inside’ to cases where one church member has a disagreement with another. If the church does not ‘judge’ those outside, neither should it take its internal affairs outside for judgement.

For Paul, allowing church members to be judged by ‘the ungodly’ (v 1) is to show that the church has very little awareness of who she is in Christ. These actions will destroy the testimony of God’s people before the world.

Let us pay heed to Paul’s fundamental expectation that our experience of God’s grace must show in the way we live our lives. We, who have been saved by grace, often fail to live out this grace in our actions. The spiritual must inevitably influence the natural and physical.

The Corinthian church did not allow their spiritual experience of God’s grace to affect what they did with their physical bodies. We too fail to realise that what we do with our bodies (pornography, overdose of TV & electronic devises, sexual immorality) is intimately linked to our spiritual well-being. The doctrine of the sanctity of the body and its disciplines need to be urgently taught in the church today. Our bodies belong solely to our Lord and Master Jesus. Let us live in submission to His will.

Pray that individuals and families learn anew the wealth and value of spiritual disciplines. Could we have periods of fasting from things like TV, smartphones and the internet?