Sermon Study Guide for October 7th

Study Questions for October 07, 2012

Sermon: “Getting Clean

by: Vermon Pierre

Series: The Tabloid Church (1 Corinthians 5:6-8)

1.    Review and re-cap the situation Paul is dealing with in 1 Corinthians 5.

2.    What can blatant unchecked sin do to a church? How does Paul use the metaphor of leaven (or yeast if we were to put it in modern days terms) to illustrate this?

3.    Think of a modern day example or parallel to this situation. It can be something you heard about or something you are personally aware of. How did it turn out? According to this passage, how should it have been dealt with?

4.    Describe the kinds of things the people in a church of “sincerity and truth” (v.8) would do and not do.  How does our identity in Christ help us become a church of sincerity and truth and keep being a church of sincerity and truth? What steps do you want to take to help cultivate this in our own church?

From "Getting Clean"