This coming Sunday at First Presbyterian Church of Baldwin we'll be concluding our series of messages from Paul's first letter to the Corinthians and taking a look at 1Corinthians 3:10-11 & 16-23.
The theme for our sermon will be 'The Temple of You'... and we'll be reflecting on what it might mean to be a walking, living, breathing temple of God. I was intrigued by the video below... which is about the 3rd temple mentioned in Scripture... the one Ezekial saw in a vision (but which was never actually built) and how it was to be built in the shape of a person. (You'll have to watch it to know what I'm talking about!)
Body temples. Then there's the whole idea of the community of the faithful being together a 'temple' or 'Body' ... and the biblical image of the church as being the 'Body of Christ'. And then there is Jesus talking about His body as being a temple that if destroyed would be rebuilt in three days time. Mind boggling stuff when you start allowing all those different temple related images to percolate in your mind!
Paul writes in the passage we are considering : "Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?" (verse 16). So... body temples... here's some questions to consider as we approach Sunday.
- How are we taking care of our personal or communal temple?
- What's the mission statement of our temple?
- What does Paul mean when he writes 'that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst'.
Hope to see some of you Sunday... and maybe connect with others in different ways :-)
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