1 Corinthians 3:5-15
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. [REFLECTION] What stuck with you from this past Sunday’s service/ passage?
2. [INTERPRETATION] Rapid fire understanding of the analogies Paul used:
- What is the seed?
i. What does planting represent?
ii. What is it to water?
iii. What is growth?
- What is the building?
i. What does it mean to build?
ii. What are the materials? (bonus: how can we distinguish them?)
iii. Who owns the building project/ runs it?
3. [TESTIMONY] Who are the people you can point to that planted and watered the seed of the gospel in your story, that the Lord has used to grow you?
4. [LOCAL CHURCH] What type of “material” constitutes the people of a mature/well-built church?
5. [LEADERSHIP] What marks of Christian leadership are in this passage? How can we, as the church, hold ourselves and our leaders accountable to this servant-hearted, Christ-centeredness?
6. [BROKEN PEOPLE] How does this passage give insight into how we should view the Church in light of failures by church leadership?
7. [CHRISTIAN LIFE] If God is the power of growth and founder of the building, how does this influence our view of our own salvation, holiness, and responsibility as members of His Church?
