The church as "the temple of God" is called to be led by the Spirit, fed by God's Word, and offered up to God as a "living sacrifice" in daily service.

1. 1 Corinthians 3:1-2
Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but
as worldly—mere infants in Christ. I gave you
milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for
it. Indeed, you are still not ready.
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2. 1 Corinthians 3:3-4
You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy
and quarreling among you, are you not worldly?
Are you not acting like mere men? For when one
says, ‘I follow Paul,’ and another, ‘I follow
Apollos,’ are you not mere men?
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3. 1 Corinthians 3:5-7
What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul?
Only servants, through whom you came to
believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his
task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but
God made it grow. So neither he who plants or
he who waters is anything, but only God, who
makes things grow.
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4. 1 Corinthians 3:8-9
The man who plants and the man who waters
have one purpose, and each will be rewarded
according to his own labor. For we are God’s
fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s
building.
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5. 1 Corinthians 3:10-11
By the grace God has given me, I laid a
foundation as an expert builder, and someone
else is building on it. But each one should be
careful how he builds. For no one can lay any
foundation other than the one already laid,
which is Jesus Christ.
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6. 1 Corinthians 3:12-13
If any many builds on this foundation using gold,
silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw, his work
will be shown for what it is, because the Day will
bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and
the fire will test the quality of each man’s work.
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7. 1 Corinthians 3:14-15
If what he has built survives, he will receive his
reward. If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he
himself will be saved, but only as one escaping
through the flames.
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8. 1 Corinthians 3:16-17
Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s
temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? If
anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy
him; for God’s temple is sacred, and you are that
temple.
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9. 1 Corinthians 3:18-20
Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you
thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he
should become a ‘fool’ so that he may become
wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness
in God’s sight. As it is written: ‘He catches the
wise in their craftiness’; and again, ‘ The Lord
knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.’
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10. 1 Corinthians 3:21-23
So then, no more boasting about men! All things
are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or
the world or life or death or the present or the
future—all are yours, and you are of Christ, and
Christ is of God.
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11. Generally when we think
about the temple image we
think about the INDIVIDUAL
believer.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 pertains to the
individual believers, 1 Cor. 3:16-17 to the
CONGREGATION as a whole.

12. We are to be LED by God’s
Spirit.
How can we claim to be set apart for God if
we still live LIKE the world?
To be led by the Spirit is to be FORMED in the
Spirit.
Too many are committed to Christ in
PRINCIPLE but not in PRACTICE.

13. Not only are we to be Spirit
led, but WORD fed.
If you have a steady DIET of the world, then
don’t be surprised if you look like the world.
God uses His Word to bring about GROWTH.

14. As we are Spirit led and Word fed, our lives
become a LIVING sacrifice offered to God.
You are RESPONSIBLE for how you choose to live
WHO or for WHAT are you living for?

15. Please take a moment to fill out your
Communication Card
My Next Step Today is to:
( ) Do the home life help (in bulletin)
( ) Evaluate if my commitment to Christ goes beyond
principle to practice.
( ) Reflect on whether or not my “diet” is leading me to
spiritual health.
( ) Reflect on what it means to live for God as a living
sacrifice (see Romans 12)
( ) Identify how I can better treat both my body and the
church as a temple of God.
( ) Other________________________