"How Big Is Our God"	February 6th, 2005

1 Corinthians 1: 10-17 3:1-7, 21&23

10. I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought.
11. My brothers, some from Chloe's household have informed me that there are quarrels among you.
12. What I mean is this: One of you says, “I follow Paul”; another, “I follow Apollos”; another, “I follow Cephas”; still another, “I follow Christ.”
13. Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into the name of Paul?
14. I am thankful that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,
15. so no one can say that you were baptized into my name.
16. (Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I don't remember if I baptized anyone else.)
17. For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel–not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

1. Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly–mere infants in Christ.
2. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.
3. You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men?
4. For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men?
5. 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.
6. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
7. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.

21. So then, no more boasting about men! All things are yours,

23. and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.

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