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The reason these verses in 1 Corinthians 13 strike such a chord in our hearts is because love has been made known. The reverberating effects of love – expressed most powerfully through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ - wash like wave after wave after wave upon the shores of our lives. A love that is so, so desperately needed. In a fickle world, where love can so easily be distorted or devalued, his is the love that never fails. There is absolutely no way, in which the love of Christ has, or ever will, fail us. In any way. God is the author of love and therefore He is the one who gets to describe how it is to be displayed.

The Communion is where we remember that Jesus gave the ultimate sacrifice for us. His body was broken and his blood was shed so that we can have eternal life, that we can be reunited with God the Father. Because of what Jesus did we celebrate and we have Purpose, Meaning in Life. Because of this the offer stands for us all to receive forgiveness of all our sins, healing from all our shame, we are being made new. And we are being made one, because of what Jesus has done, we are all, yes all part of one family and there is now no separation, segregation, difference whatsoever.

240616 - 1 Corinthians 11v17 - 34 - Erich Radtke by Everyday Church

In scripture, the perfect understanding of submission and authority is found in Jesus. To display how men and women should handle authority and submission Paul points to the relationship between Men and Christ and between Jesus and the Father. In both cases, submission and authority are based on love and the choice to honour the other so that they might be lifted up.

For some of us the topic of baptism may be completely foreign. You may have come across baptism to some degree in your experience, but really you feel it’s never had any relevance to you and your life. Maybe church is a new thing for you. If that’s you, we want to help explain what we mean by baptism and help you see how it could be relevant for you.

The challenge for us today - in whatever we do, are we glorifying God? In whatever we say are we glorifying God? In how we host people, in how we build up and support our fellow Christians, are we glorifying God? In how we talk to people who don’t know Jesus, are we glorifying God? That’s the question that we all need to meditate on as we consider all our challenges, big and small.