From Sitting to Service

We continue our series, “The Journey to Deep,” today as we walk through Paul’s letter to the church at Corinth. This week we are going to dig into chapter 12 of 1 Corinthians, so grab your Bible or electronic device and turn to chapter 12.

The opening verse of this passage in 1 Corinthians chapter 12 actually puts us on a pathway which leads us to this “Journey to Deep.” Look at 1 Corinthians 12:1: “Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.”

Paul is trying to put this church on solid footing and point them in the right direction, so in this section he announces how each of them have been spiritually gifted by God and how they need to be using their God-given gift in order to build up the body of Christ, which is what we refer to as the church. Paul wants to make it very clear that the church understands the importance of moving from sitting to service.