Jesus Culture Sacramento Message of the Week
Jul 7, 2026 · 0 min · 12 segments
What do lawsuits and sexuality have to do with living a life that reflects the gospel? This week, Pastor Becky unpacks why Paul connects these two topics in 1 Corinthians, reminding us that while we…
Becky JohnsonHost
So the members of the household of Chloe, that's a church, a house church that was meeting, they told Paul some things that were happening that they were concerned about.
And so the letter of 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians, it is corrective in nature because he is addressing issues he's heard about, issues that we still face, issues that we as the body are still coming up against.
And the church in Corinth, Corinth was an extremely pagan city and an extremely sexual city, a promiscuous city, a gluttonous city.
And what had inevitably started to happen was the church that Paul had established in Corinth was beginning to be more shaped by Corinth than by Christ.
and correct the issues that they were starting to be loose about or kind of slide back into their pagan ways.
And I just wanna give you a quick reminder because we're going into six and they're all connected, you know, his connection of thought here.
The Corinthians were ignoring sin within the body because it made them uncomfortable to address, or they were calling it grace.
They were kind of priding themselves that we have so much grace, we have so much love.
Look, we're gonna let this guy sleep with his stepmother because we're so open.
Remember, so we talked about when we ignore sin in the body, it's like watching your loved ones run into traffic and calling it grace.
That's just, you know, I'm so gracious and loving, I'm letting them walk into traffic.
That's not grace, that's neglect, and we're not gonna be a church that does that, right? So that was chapter five.
So the members of the household of Chloe, that's a church, a house church that was meeting, they told Paul some things that were happening that they were concerned about.
And so the letter of 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians, it is corrective in nature because he is addressing issues he's heard about, issues that we still face, issues that we as the body are still coming up against.
And the church in Corinth, Corinth was an extremely pagan city and an extremely sexual city, a promiscuous city, a gluttonous city.
And what had inevitably started to happen was the church that Paul had established in Corinth was beginning to be more shaped by Corinth than by Christ.
and correct the issues that they were starting to be loose about or kind of slide back into their pagan ways.
And I just wanna give you a quick reminder because we're going into six and they're all connected, you know, his connection of thought here.
The Corinthians were ignoring sin within the body because it made them uncomfortable to address, or they were calling it grace.
They were kind of priding themselves that we have so much grace, we have so much love.
Look, we're gonna let this guy sleep with his stepmother because we're so open.
Remember, so we talked about when we ignore sin in the body, it's like watching your loved ones run into traffic and calling it grace.
That's just, you know, I'm so gracious and loving, I'm letting them walk into traffic.
That's not grace, that's neglect, and we're not gonna be a church that does that, right? So that was chapter five.
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