Be a Family as You Do the Lord’s Work

Read 1 Corinthians Chapter 16 first and then the application below.

1 Corinthians Ch. 16: Be a family to one another as you do the Lord’s work.

v.1-4  According to your ability, regularly set aside something to help other believers.

v.5-9  Fellowship with and encourage believers who are using the doors of opportunity that the Lord gives them, and dealing with opposition to the gospel.

v.10-12  Respect and support fellow workers who come to you in Jesus’s name, but don’t exalt any of them too highly.

v.13-14  Be a watchful, faithful, brave, strong, and loving member of the family and the team.

v.15-24  Respect fellow workers of other churches; supply, refresh, and acknowledge workers who are promoting the gospel and strengthening the churches; and love the Lord and one another.

*This excerpt comes from Beebe Kauffman, A Whole Lot of Wonderful—Application of the New Testament for Today (Buford, Georgia: Lighthouse Bible Studies, 2018), 359.