Grace Central Coast

Paul's warning to the Corinthian church serves as a warning for us to remember the past failures of God's people in order that we guard our own lives and flee from idolatry and stay faithful to Christ. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 10:1-14  📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1  

Paul uses sports analogies to continue his encouragement to the church of Corinth to be Gospel focused. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1  

How does the Apostle Paul choose to exercise his Christian freedom? By giving up his rights to win as many to Christ as possible. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1  

Why does Paul refuse payment for his church ministry? Should all pastors do the same? Paul teaches us that while we are afforded many rights, we are called to use (or forfeit) everything and anything for the sake of the gospel. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 9:1-18 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1  

The world looks one way from ground level. But it looks very different when we get up above it. In 1 Corinthians 15:20-28, the Apostle Paul takes us higher and invites us to see the earth-shaking, life-changing, future-shaping impact of Jesus' resurrection. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 15:17-28  📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1  

Just like some of the Christians in Corinth, we are those who fight for our personal rights and freedoms. Paul here in 1 Corinthians 8 teaches that for those who love God, Gospel love trumps and must shape the exercise of our rights freedoms. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 8:1-13  📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1

Like the Corinthians, we are a MESSY CHURCH filled with messy people who are living messy lives. We, like them, need clear Biblical instruction on the messy issues around marriage and divorce. 1 Corinthians 7 provides a guide! 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 7:10-16, 39-40  📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1  

Why does Paul celebrate singleness? Why does he call it a gift when many see it as a curse? Paul elevates the singles in the church by pulling back our focus to see that devotion to God matters more than any relationship status. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 7:25-38 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1

After warning about the dangers of sexual immorality in chapter 6, Paul now highlights several principles for marriage in the first part of chapter 7. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 7:1-10  📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1   

Today, we step back from the tough details of 1 Corinthians 5 & 6 to provide some pastoral reflections, clarification, encouragement, and application from these chapters for our church family living and loving in the mess. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 5:7-13, 6:11 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1  

In 1 Corinthians 6:12-20, Paul returns to the delicate and dangers area of sexual immorality and, again, grounds his teaching in the Gospel, all that God has done for us in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus! 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 📝Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1   

The Christians in the Corinthian church are suing one another in civil courts!  Its another area where they aren't living or applying the Gospel together. Here we see how Paul challenges them with the Gospel to live differently.   📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 6:1-11 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1  

1 Corinthians 5 highlights both the seriousness of sexual immorality in our own lives and seriousness of sexual immorality in the church.  This passage provides guidelines for how a church is to deal with ongoing, habitual, unconfessed, public sin.   📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 5 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1  

In 1 Corinthians 5, Paul begins to confront and correct some MESSY sexual sin in the Corinthian church. As we dive into this vulnerable subject, the place to start is to explain what "sexual immorality" is and why it's so serious in the sight of God. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 5 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1  

In one last effort to call the Corinthian church to humble unity centered on the gospel, Paul exposes how their love of worldly honor is completely at odds with the way of Jesus. He then calls them to imitate his example for the sake of their unity together. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 4:8–21  📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1  

Everywhere we look, we see a crisis in leadership: selfish leaders, harsh leaders, failing leaders. But leaders in God's kingdom and church are called to be different. What do leaders shaped by and centered on the Gospel look like? Paul models it and teaches us in 1 Corinthians 4. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 4:1-7 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1...

The first Sunday of the new year here at Grace Central Coast, we call Covenant Renewal Sunday.  It's a Sunday where we take time to renew our covenant commitment to the Lord and our covenant commitment to one another.  This year, our challenge comes from 1 Samuel 7.   📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Samuel 7:1-10 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1

We are living in a world that has been radically and profoundly changed by the Gift of Jesus, but most of us don't know it! As we conclude our INDESCRIBABLE series, we consider how Jesus is a world-changing gift. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: Matthew 13:31-35 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org

Have you ever noticed how every character in the Christmas story shares the Gift of Jesus with someone? It's reminder to us that the Good News of Jesus is a gift to be shared. So let's think together about why we don't share the gift of Jesus and explore how we can. 📖SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 2:8-18 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1  

Have you opened a gift only to discover it contained lots of other gifts? That's Jesus! And one more reason why Paul calls him God's INDESCRIBABLE gift. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: Galatians 4:3-7 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1  

One of the reasons Jesus is God's INDESCRIBABLE gift is because Jesus is the most surprising gift in all history. No one saw God's Savior coming the way he did. But our familiarity with the Christmas story means we often miss it's surprises. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 1:26-35, 2:1-7 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1

Christmas is not a random event on a timeline. It is the epicenter of all human longing, seeking, and meaning! The interwoven tapestry of all scripture, history, and spirituality have all promised the coming of our King. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: Isaiah 45:1-7 📝 Download the Message Notes: gracecentralcoast.org

How do you see the local church? How does God see the local church? How we see the local church is vitally important, because our view of the church will determine our commitment to the church and to one another. Paul continues his fight to unite God's people in the local by teaching us who we are and all that is ours in Christ. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 3:16-23 📝 Download the Message N...

As we continue our MESSY CHURCH study of First Corinthians, we come to a bunch of helpful and humbling reminders for a church family and for church leaders as Paul continues to dismantle the factions and unite the church around the Gospel. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 3:4-15 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1

God's design and desire for his people is spiritual growth and maturity. We learn here that the Corinthian Christians aren't growing up. They are still spiritual babies. This is true for some of us, too. Paul here reminds us that God has given us all we need to grow as he challenges us to GROW UP!  📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 2:6-3:4 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast...