The Most Excellent Way

But here's the thing.

One of the things I've loved about this series, To All the Saints, where we're going through all Paul's letters, is intentionally, I mean, we could spend a year on one book of the Bible, just go line by line.

But one of the things we've talked about this, Becky and I have talked about this as we meet, We want you to get into the word of God.

We don't wanna just study it.

We want the word to get in us.

And so one of the things that I'm gonna do today is I'm gonna give us context.

My prayer is that you leave with questions, that you actually get agitated a little bit so that you actually get in the word of God yourself.

Listen, I'll just say this.

If you're just relying on these awesome messages on Sunday from Banny and Becky and the team, as great as they are, it's not enough.

This needs to be in us.

And so one of the things I've loved, and it's been a little different as we've been going through this series, is going through even larger kind of overviews to just get this thing, this life.

The Bible says the word of God is life.

In the beginning was the word.

Speaking of Jesus, he himself is the word, but the word of God is as a way that we get to know him and be transformed by him.

So we've got a lot to cover.

I know that there's been a book, the Be Wise books, that Becky, I listened to message number one of 1 Corinthians, so good.

She gave the overview and context of the scripture.

I want to give you another resource to dive into.

So N.T. Wright, one of my favorite theologians, he wrote a book called 1 Corinthians for Everyone.

Super easy, very self-explanatory.

If you want to dive into more of that, we can go into that.

We're going to just start by reading the Word of God.

So chapter 12, I'm actually skipping ahead.

Michael's going to go back and cover 11 and 12.

I asked specifically, can I cover these three? Because I got to speak this a little while ago at our church in San Diego.