1 Corinthians 6:9-20 (ESV)

9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. 12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. 13 “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Intro: Why does it matter that disagreement does not equal hate?

GOD’S GOOD DESIGN, BROKEN
What is at stake if God is real, if He has a specific design, and if He has revealed this design?

WE BELIEVE THERE IS HOPE IN JESUS
What has Jesus done to justify, satisfy, and liberate us?

HOW SHALL WE THEN LIVE?
What does it look like, in our time and culture, to live like no one else does?

YOU CAN PRAY WITH US …
1 - Worship the LORD for His goodness and kindness to design us, in His likeness, for love. Praise Him, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, for His profound love to save sinners like us who have smashed His good design.

2 - How have you lived lustfully, craving what God has made more than you have hungered for Him? Confess your folly, your pride, and your willfulness to Jesus, asking Him to forgive you and to truly change your heart.

3 - Give thanks to Jesus for His beauty and His fullness. Thank Him for beautifully loving you when you were ugly, for sacrificing for you when you were selfish; and thank Him for staying with you when no one else does.

4 - Who do you know whose life is so broken that it appears beyond recovery? Pray for them, asking the Lord to reveal His kindness and power to save anyone, and that He would change their life.

5 - Ask the Holy Spirit to bear in you the fruit of holiness and faithfulness. Pray that He would help you to be true to God’s good design (especially sexually) and that He would help us to live as a community that’s incomparable with anything in this world.