Called to Be Saints - 1 Corinthians 11 – Acceptable Worship

Issues Affecting the Assembly

11:1-16      Men and Women in Worship

11:17-34     The Lord’s Supper

12:1 - 14:40        Spiritual Gifts

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Issues Affecting the Assembly

11:1-16      Men and Women in Worship

11:17-34     The Lord’s Supper

12:1 - 14:40        Spiritual Gifts

                 12     Members of the Body

                 13     The Priority of Love

                 14     Edification of the Body

Background

Women’s head coverings

Universal in first century

Longer hair – distinction

Hair very short or shaved

Acceptable Worship

Challenge and Praise – 11:1-2

Heads Up! – 11:3

Covered or Uncovered? – 11:4-7a

Creation and Purpose – 11:7b-10

Interdependence – 11:11-12

It’s Only Natural! – 11:13-15

The Real Issue: Contention – 11:16

The Lord’s Supper

The Problem: 11:17-22

“I cannot commend you!”

Divisions and factions. 1:10ff

“Me-first” spirit. Chs. 8-10

Greed. 10:6

Disregarding others. 8:1

Excluding, shaming others. 8:9-13

Drunkenness. 6:9-11

Like former pagan revelry.

The Pattern: 11:23-26

“I received and delivered …” tradition – 11:2.

Anchored to the Past: The Lord’s death.

Central to the Present:

We remember.

We proclaim.

We examine.

Pointed to the Future: Until He comes.

The Prescription: 11:27-34

Grave Warnings

Unworthy manner 11:27

Guilty of body and blood 11:27

Eat and drink judgment 11:29

Weak – sick – “asleep” 11:30

Doctor’s Orders

Self-appraisal, inventory. Judgment and discipline.

Dealing with sin now, so not condemned then.