Sunday School: Lessons on Unity from 1 Corinthians 1

 1 Corinthians 1:10-17

1. Prayer

2. Background

• Founded church on second journey
• Apollos followed
• Paul's third journey -- at Ephesus
• Divided church (letters, visits)

3. Read Scripture

4. Breakout rooms (What are some of our divisions in the church today?)

5. Divided over cliques

• I am of Paul.
• I am of Apollos.
• I am of Cephas.
• I am of Christ.
• What are the groups in the church that we fight over--denominations? churches in town? Christian colleges?

6. Divided over status

• taking each other to court (1 Cor. 6)
• The rich getting drunk at communion
• What are examples here? racial privilege, the haves over the have nots

7. One group thinks they know more.

• eating at the marketplace, eating at a pagan temple
• Probably didn't know as much as they thought
• The key was building each other up

8. One group thinks they're more spiritual

• tongues versus prophecy
• women without coverings
• self-contradictory, to boast of spirituality
• about building each other up