1 Cor 1:13a “Is Christ divided?”
Paul provides a rhetorical question that’s applicable for us
today. Consider that churches are launched almost weekly with a supposed newer
or better format for worship, favoritism of preachers, music, style. Such a
mindset was indicative of the church in Corinth who was divided in Christ by focusing
on preference rather than purpose. (Phl 2:5 “Let this mind be in you which was
in Christ Jesus.”) Don’t fall to the
persuasion of preference over purpose (Mt 22:25). We unite in Christ when we
fulfill the true purpose of the church: (Jas 1:27 “Pure religion and
undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows
in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”) A united body/church is not flashy it’s
faithful in its servitude to the Lord’s purpose, not their preference.
When we let preference weigh in our purpose, we confuse the
sacred with the secular… HSAY
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