Theme for this Sunday: The Power of the Gospel
Passage for Sunday: 2Cor 5:17-20 + 1Cor 1:17-24
When we think about the power of God at work in Acts, often we focus on the work of Holy Spirit, which takes centre stage, and miss the other side of God’s power - the gospel message. Paul reminded the Corinthian church that although the culture of the day considered the gospel to be foolish, the message of Christ crucified is vehicle through which God transmits his wisdom. The gospel is a message of reconciliation, an invitation to end our estrangement with God forever by His grace through faith in Christ, and be forgiven for all our sins past, present, and future.
So it was the power of the Spirit and the power of the Gospel message at work together in Acts 2 the was able to touch so many hearts and transform so many lives. God has given every Christian the responsibility to share and proclaim God’s call to be reconciled through the power of the Holy Spirit to anyone we have an opportunity to do so.
- What was Paul’s central message to the intellectual Greeks at Corinth (1Cor 1:17-24 )?
- How did Paul communicate the gospel (I Cor 2:1-5)?
- What is God’s messenger called to do and what are they supposed to talk about (2Cor 5:17-20)?
2 Corinthians 5:17-20
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.
1 Corinthians 1:17-24
Christ Crucified Is God’s Power and Wisdom
18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”[a]
20 Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. 22 Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24 but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
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