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1 Cor. 1:1-9 What if you were lost? You took the wrong exit off the highway and ended up in down town somewhere, surrounded by night clubs and bars, tenement houses, motor cycle gangs, street fighters, drug pushers, prostitutes and gun fights, plus, to top it off, worst nightmare of all, a government sponsored establishment that makes money by promoting that tough life style and encouraging it to continue! I know. You want to get out of there as fast as you can. But just suppose that while you were there God spoke to your heart and said, “I want you to preach the gospel and plant a church right here among these people.” Now, how would you respond to God? I’m betting a lot of us would still want to get out of there as fast as we can. What could God be thinking, sending anyone into that kind of environment? Well, Paul might have wondered that too when he first arrived in Corinth. But he wasn’t lost. God  sent  him to that city, and it was very much like the one we would...

Romans 12:1-2 What is worship? When you ask people to define worship most would probably think of going to church on Sunday, singing and praying and listening to the Word of God. Some would add that their personal quiet time is also worship. These things are true. But the Bible’s definition of worship is much broader even than that. We just read it. “Offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.”  Now that raises a question. What does that kind of worship look like? Let’s start with this. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” If you do those things obediently and joyfully because of all that God has already done for you, that’s worship!  But it’s still kind of abstract, what does it look li...