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Discipleship Focus: Appetite
- Appetite: We all have needs that need to be filled. When we allow ourselves to be filled with the people and things that God brings into our life, we will be satisfied because our In will be in proper focus. But when we try to fill ourselves with our own desires we end up frustrated by an insatiable hunger.
1 Corinthians 11 has one of the most quoted passages of scripture:
the Words of Institution. But if we look
at the greater context of this passage, we find that it is a part of a passage
of correction. Paul has to correct the
worship habits of the Corinthians.
People are coming to worship and eating more than their share of
communion so other people have to go hungry.
Other people are getting drunk at the opportunity! The church in Corinth has turned into a time
for people to come and act how they want without consideration of how their
actions are affecting the people around them.
That is clearly an issue of appetite. The Corinthian church was full of people who
were focused on their own insatiable human desires. They were focused internally. It wasn’t about coming and connecting with community
and connecting with Christ. It wasn’t a
time of submission. The Corinthians were
coming and asserting themselves instead of submitting to one another and God.
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