Letters to the Fam - Part 2 - To the Churches

Introduction

Riding the Wave

Letters to the fam—part II

An Epistle—Theological and Occasional

Letters to the Churches—The Fruit of Mission

Corinthians—Messed Up Church

Messed up Communities

Some Problems in Corinth

A Table of Contrasts

Ephesians/Colossians/Philemon—What is the Church?

Prison Epistles

Ephesians and Colossians 

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Philemon

Philippians—Joyful Church

Thessalonians—Hopeful Church

The Gospel Bearing Fruit and Creating Family

The Second Coming of King Jesus

Community Meditation

In your MC take a few minutes just to read sections of these writings.  Don’t discuss them, just read them aloud over the community. You can read all of these this week—treat it as your Scripture reading playlist. My guess is that you’ll end up exploring quite a bit.

• 1  & 2 Corinthians: 1 Cor 1:18-25, 6:12-20, 10:23-31, 11:23-26, 12:12-31, 13:1-7, 15:1-3, 15:54-58.  2 Cor 3, 4:1-6, 4, 5:17-21, 7:10, 9:6-15, 12:9,10.
• Ephesians, Colossians, Philemon: Eph 1: 3-14, 2:1-10, 3:14-21, 4:11-16, 5:18-33, 6:10-20, Col 1:15-20, 2:6-15, 3:1-17. Philemon 4-7, 17-20.
• Philippians—Phil 1:15-21, 2:1-11, 3:8-16, 4:4-9, 4:10-13.
• 1 & 2 Thessalonians: 1 Thes 1:2-10, 2:5-12, 4:1-8, 13-18, 5:12-24. 2 Thes 1:5-12, 2:13-17, 3:6-15.