4-5-24 The Church Battleground 1st Corinthians 1_1-9

A. Yes, Jesus! The Church, no!
1. This was the slogan in the 60s during the time of the Jesus Revolution. People were looking for purpose and the meaning of life. Those of us who lived through those days remember events like Woodstock, protests of the Vietnam war, Sex, Drugs, and Rock n Roll. Are things really that much different today? People in the world are still seeking the same thing, trying to find all the answers in all the wrong places and it leads to more emptiness. Jesus, Yes! The Church, no! Why is that? Is the church that messed up? Some will believe that because the church says no to sin, some might say that because they see Christians are not different from the world, some might say that because Christians look down at them and judge them, not by God’s standards, but by their standards in a faulty human condition. The human heart cannot judge another human being, each person has their own eternal battle with the flesh and sin, but as Christians, we are to communicate God’s expectations for living knowing that we are flawed even as Christians. That’s why we are told to take the log out of our own eye first: