live magazine - March-April 2021

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BIBLE STUDY

Inspired Good Choices Encourage Love | Inspire Good Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works. ~ Hebrews 10:23-24 (ESV

Within a lifetime, we make millions of decisions. Typically, we base our decisions on a variety of factors: the societal norms and family into which we are born; our up-bringing; our moral, ethical and religious beliefs; our career/employment and standard of living; our health; the influence of church, friends and family; our reading material and social media interactions and our leisure activities, to name but a few. As followers of Christ, how do we discern good from evil; justice from injustice; a godly decision from a humanly “good” decision? What governs our choices? To which voices do we listen? READ I Corinthians 2 In verses 1-4 Paul describes his demeanour and approach when he first came to speak to the new believers at Corinth. Name the approaches he did NOT use in speaking to the church: _________________________ _________________________ _________________________ Verses 4b and 5 describe Paul’s discernment of the approach needed in speaking to the church: _________________________ _________________________ _________________________ In verses 6-11 Paul lays out a clear delineation between “the wisdom by Linda Ellsworth

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Linda is the member care coordinator for Christian Camping International, Canada. live • March - April 2021

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