Rooted in the
Gospel of Jesus.

The church in a rich and diverse capital city like Corinth struggled with living out the implications of the gospel. This was even evident in the way they celebrated worship and ate meals together. The rich enjoyed their wealth, feasting in front of the poor in their community who lacked food.

In his sermon, Logan examines the Apostle Paul’s example in 1 Corinthians 9, challenging Christians to balance their individual rights with the call to sacrificially serve others for the sake of the gospel. It highlights how surrendering our freedoms leads to a deeper, imperishable joy as we follow Christ’s model of becoming all things to all people.

In 1 Corinthians 6, Paul continues to challenge the sexually immoral practices of the church in Corinth. The sexual drenched culture of Corinth assumed sex outside of marriage and with prostitutes (The Temple of Aphrodite was the center of the city). But Paul calls them to understand sex, the body, and their humans identity on the basis of who God is and what he has done. He invites them, and us, to look back at God’s design for sex and the body in Genesis 1-2, he looks ahead to the Resurrection and the restoration of all things–the “telos” of humanity (including sex and the body), and he grounds it all in the good new of Jesus Christ crucified and risen for us. This gives us the basis for our own anthropology: who are we, why are we here, and what is God’s original intent and ultimate telos for sex, the body, relationships and what it means to be human.

In his sermon, Logan explores 1 Corinthians 5 to address the problem of hypocrisy and the essential call for the church to pursue holiness. By examining why we must “purge the leaven” of sin, this message highlights how living a life set apart for God preserves our witness and leads to true spiritual freedom and joy.