In this passage, Paul reminds the church that they are God’s temple—called to holiness, humility, and godly wisdom—and warns against self-deception, pride, and the destructive patterns that tear down rather than build up the body of Christ.
HEART CHECK QUESTIONS
- What do you boast in? You and your achievements or Christ? Are you letting your own lips praise you?
- What are ways we can lose our rewards? Do motives and attitudes when we serve matter? What is your heart motive when you serve?
- How is gossip, slander, factions, jealousy, strife, and the like, ways we destroy God’s house?
- Do you see any of the wrong thinking of the Corinthians in your life? What have you learned so far this year that can help you to think rightly?
