Bible Study on how all Believers share the same salvation and thus should be unified through that confession.

1. United in Christ
1 Corinthians 1:10-25
All believers share the same salvation and thus
should be unified through that confession.

2. BACKGROUND
• Paul preached the gospel in Corinth on his second missionary
journey
• He stayed in Corinth for 1.5 years
• Corinth was a key commercial city, known for immorality
(corinthianize)
• Paul received reports of internal divisions in the church
(PRIDE)
• Paul writes to answer their questions and motivate them to
submit to Christ’s lordship

3. PAUL’S OPENING
• Remember your calling (called as saints to live
holy lives under Christ’s lordship
• “grace & peace” to you from God

4. WHAT KIND OF UNITY?
• Agreement in declaration of allegiance
• Same care for one another (1 Corinthians 12:24-25)
• Interwoven fabric where one tear is felt all
over…feels what others feel
• Not an absolute criterion for how we relate to
professing Christians…the truth must be
• Unity of ideas (doctrine…view of God and of Christ)

5. WHY UNITY?
• Reflects the bond that exists within the
Trinity…let’s don’t look like the world (foolish)
• As believers, we have the same salvation, we
should “say the same” thing

6. OUR AIM
• Full doctrinal unity (know the word!)
• Heart unity
• Expect disunity in the visible church because of
non-genuine professors of faith (correct with
gentleness in hope of repentance)

7. WHERE DOES DISUNITY GET ITS
ROOTS?
PRIDE

8. 1 Corinthians 1:10
I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that
there be no divisions among you, but that you
be united in the same mind and the same
judgment.

9. The Nature of the Disunity
1 Corinthians 1:11-12
For it has been reported to me by Chloe’s people
that there is quarreling among you, my brothers.
What I mean is that each one of you says, “I
follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow
Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”

10. Who do I try and line up behind
as an ego boost?

11. 1 Corinthians 1:13-17
Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you
baptized in the name of Paul? I thank God that I baptized
none of you except Crispus and Gaius, so that no one may say
that you were baptized in my name. (I did baptize also the
household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether
I baptized anyone else.) For Christ did not send me to baptize
but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent
wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

12. Undermining Disunity & Building
Unity
• Christ is not divided (v.13)…we have ALL of Him!
• Paul wasn’t crucified for you; Christ was (v.13)
• You were baptized into Christ’s Name (v.13, 15)
• True Gospel teachers don’t rely on eloquence
(v.17)

13. When you speak about the
gospel, where is your focus?

14. The Cross that Divides & Unites
1 Corinthians 1:18-19
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing,
but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is
written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the
discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”

15. The Cross that Divides & Unites
1 Corinthians 1:20-21
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is
the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the
wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the
world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God
through the folly of what we preach to save those who
believe.

16. The Cross that Divides & Unites
1 Corinthians 1:22-
For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we
preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to
Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks,
Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the
foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of
God is stronger than men.

17. What or who are you tempted to
boast in besides Christ crucified?