The Key To Dealing With Difficult Christians

Trinity Church of Portland - Sermons

This morning we continued in our series Christian Living In The Current of Culture, preaching through Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians. This sermon titled “The Key To Dealing With Difficult Christians” was preached by Pastor Thomas Terry from 1 Corinthians 1:4-9.

This sermon continued to unpack the initial greeting of Paul to the Corinthians. In this text Paul reveals the key to dealing with difficult Christians which is to be thankful to God for the things that God has done in His people. Paul acknowledges that God had enriched this church with gifts related to speech and knowledge, the very things that were being misused and over emphasized by some of the Corinthians Christians. This is so often a problem for Christians because we take good gifts from God and misuse them and even sin with them. Nevertheless, God in his infinite wisdom sustains us to wait for the return of Christ, and while we wait we are to work, love, worship, evangelize, and maintain faithfulness and thankfulness to God, all the while remembering our salvation is because of His grace, not our faithfulness. In fact this entire letter represents God’s faithfulness to Christians who often times were not faithful. Let us remember His faithfulness and rely on His grace and look forward to Christ’s imminent return.