LightWk Bible Studies

How important is marriage? Is a person better for being married or unmarried? How do these two sides play in a believer's life? Especially in a time where being married is beheld as an achievement greater than celibacy. In today's Sunday sermon, we look through the last portion of the seventh chapter in the book of 1st Corinthians to see how Paul balances out both and what the real questio...

Discussions in the 7th chapter of 1st Corinthians on marriage have exposed several issues facing the church militant. They include: Is it appropriate for Christians to use birth control or contraceptives? Who is meant for? What are the differing views of the church from time past on the topic? And when is it right to apply such methods and applications? In today's Bible studies, we put these q...

As we progress deeper through the verses of chapter 7 in the book of 1st Corinthians, Paul continues to expound on the issue of marriage to the Corinthian church, emphasizing its importance and yet reminding them of the main focus, Christ, irrespective of a believer's status. We build on Paul's instructions and position the church today and how it fares with the various implications of this text i...

How are believers to handle instances of divorce? And what is the expected state of a believer even in cases of separation? What are believing spouses supposed to do with unbelieving spouses? All these questions form the discussions the Apostle Paul addresses to the Corinthian church in this portion of the chapter. He helps them navigate these issues that apply to us as Christians, even in today&#...

As we open the seventh chapter of 1st Corinthians, Paul delves properly into the issue of marriage and singleness. Paul emphasizes that both are gifts, and neither has an advantage over the other. In the opening nine verses, Paul builds on what a Christian marriage entails, the certain needs that exist, and how to glorify God in marriages. We draw from the text to apply it to us today and how a la...

In the second portion of 1st Corinthians Chapter six, Paul moves on from disputes between believers to the case of sexual immorality amongst the Corinthians. He cautions them against sexual immorality: their bodies were no longer their own, because they belonged to God, and God in their bodies as His temple meant that they ought to be pure, glorifying Him with their bodies.

How are we as Christians expected to resolve civil disputes between one another? To institute long cases of retribution against each other or to actively seek to restore fractured relationships between us? In today's Bible studies, we see how a lack of knowledge of identity, the church, the cross, and the world led to a disorder in dispute resolution in the Corinthian church. We also tackle th...

What is church discipline? Who gets involved in the process? Of what use is it? What is the motive behind church discipline: restoration or retribution for sins? In today's service, we run through the biblical practice of church discipline as God's means of sanctification, running through the discussions and questions tackled during this week, all bordering on this pivotal topic.

Church discipline is stemmed from a place of love, contrary to the popular belief that it is a means of punishment. Alongside preserving the purity of the church, it is a means of grace to help reform believers. In today's Bible study, we use 1st Corinthians 5 to refresh our hearts on the need to be our brother's keepers of the faith and also tackle questions that border around church disc...

In the second part of our session on understanding what church discipline is, we take a glance through Acts 2 to understand what a biblical church is and what it means to be a church member in order to get a clear picture of the context of application for God's means of grace to purify his church: church discipline.

The concept of church discipline is foreign to the church today, and yet it is a scriptural doctrine, a means of grace. Today we take excerpts from Benjamin Keech's "The Glory of the True Church" to further understand the Biblical concept of the church on membership, order, and discipline in a time where it is a strange phenomenon to a lot of 21st-century Christians.

Paul enters into the disorders that have befallen the Corinthian church. In today's service, we see how instrumental church discipline is to keeping and calling God's people to purity. We see through the text what church discipline is, the forms church discipline takes, the categories of people that ought to be disciplined, and how God uses church discipline to bless His church.

In this interactive session, the floor is opened for questions from the participants to ask questions that arose during the course of the conference. We ask questions on how one manages with a disciple that's far away and how to handle a difficult disciple. The facilitators and participants share their thoughts and experiences on this and more.

This is the final session of the Annual Missions Conference. With refreshed and renewed perspectives on follow-up now, Brother Minkir Dawaki walks us through the ways we can apply follow-up principles effectively on people to maintain a healthy discipling relationship as we step out in faith and faithfulness to the ones God will commit to our hands.

Having understood what effective follow-up is and what it's not, Brother Jonathan Kore takes the second session, to outline the reasons why follow-up is necessary through the lens of the Bible as; a command, to ensure our foundations are firm, for genuine love without hypocrisy. Our motives are challenged for us to re-examine as we are reminded of Christ's following up on us.

Today is our Annual Missions Conference, and our topic for this year's conference is Effective Follow-up: What, How, and Why. In this first session, Pastor Victor Abbah opens the conference by defining what biblical follow-up is, as opposed to popular practice. This session stirs our hearts and reminds us of this important part of the Great Commission.

In today's service, as Paul drives further into the heart of the division in the Corinthian church, we see how he focuses, in chapter four, on what a steward of Christ should be: faithful, diligent, humble, and responsible for what God has committed to him as he draws their attention back to Christ.

The Apostle Paul travelled a lot during his apostolic ministry, and it's no wonder that he uses familiar terminology; Hyperetes (an under-rower, a steward), to drive home his point to the Corinthians about his stewardship in Christ to further shed light in his letter to the Corinthian church about the division amongst them.

The centrality of Christ has been Paul's focus since the opening verses of 1st Corinthians . The deeper we go into the book, the more it's light is shed upon the verses. To answer one of the questions that arise in verses 13–17 of chapter 3, we touch on what should motivate a Christian amidst spiritual growth. A heart of division, especially amongst God's people, Paul points out is doo...

What happens when we as Christians strive in God's house but our motives are divided? Not fixed on Christ? In today's Bible study episode, we see how Paul warns the Corinthian church in his letter against division amongst them as a form of hindrance and waste of their spiritual efforts and spiritual rewards.

In today's sermon, we went into 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 and we saw how Division in the church is an enemy of spiritual growth. God bless you!

In today's question and answer session, we address the questions of what it means for the spiritual man to know all things and also how it is that a Christian, despite having the mind of God, still struggles with certain aspects of their lives.

Paul showed us in Chapter One of the book of Corinthians how the message of the cross is folly to the natural man. In today's Bible studies, we see Christ crucified, the hidden wisdom of God, decreed by Him, concealed by Him, and revealed by Him to the spiritual man.

In our Question and Answer session on 1st Corinthians Chapter 2, we explore the questions of how a believer can fall into sin despite having the Holy Spirit and what Paul meant when he said that the spiritual man judges, but he himself is not judged.

Today we explore the second half of 1st Corinthians Chapter 2, where we see now the ministry of the Holy Spirit, the third person of the trinity. Paul buttresses the role the Holy Spirit plays in God's church in keeping them in God's view and grace in the world around them.