The audio of the sixteenth message from the SCREWED-UP SAINTS series, “Who Do You Think You Are?” (1 Cor. 4:6-7) is now online.

A key quote from Gordon Fee (The First Epistle to the Corinthians): “[Verse 7] is an invitation to experience one of those rare, unguarded moments of total honesty, where in the presence of the eternal God one recognizes that everything—absolutely everything—that one ‘has’ is a gift.  All is of grace; nothing is deserved, nothing earned.  Those who so experience grace also live from a posture of unbounded gratitude.”

Here are the small-group discussion/personal application questions:

Getting to know you: What one word do you think people might use to describe your personality?

Have someone in the group read 1 Corinthians 4.6-7 out loud.

1. Talk about one thing in this message that made you think more deeply about something in your life.

2. What do you think is the main point of this paragraph?  Can you summarize it in one sentence or phrase?

3. Can you think of ways that Christians tend to create “outsider” and “insider” groups in the church on the basis of issues the Bible doesn’t really talk much about?

4. Can you think of things you might do differently or attitudes that would be different if you truly and deeply grasped the answer to Paul’s question, “What do you have that you did not receive?”

Next Week: A Concert of Prayer and Worship