SUNDAY LESSON, 1/23/22
THE CHURCH: BIBLICAL LEADERSHIP
1 Corinthians 3:1-9 (selected passages)
We are continuing the series on THE CHURCH, studying different qualities and actions that will help us become more of the church that God wants us to be. This Sunday we will study what it means to be a biblical leader.
When I use the term “biblical leader” I don’t at all limit church leadership to merely elders and ministers. Yes, they are important leaders in the Lord’s church, and the New Testament has much to say about them. The fact is, however, there are many great leaders we read about in the New Testament church who had no specific titles (in Romans 16:1-16 Paul lists 28 such leaders, and 10 of them are women). As we will learn this Sunday, the title that really matters to Jesus is “servant”.
Come join us Sunday as we look at Biblical principles of leadership by means of contrasting them with their negative counterparts.
1 CORINTHIANS 3:1-9
Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly–mere infants in Christ. I gave you mile, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are not still not ready. You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men? For when once says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men?
What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe–as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field and God’s building.
