What’s the Point?

What’s the Point?

1 Corinthians 15.12-34 NIV

Outline

“Gradually the sense of wonder gets squeezed out of us because knowledge and competence become the key measures and pursuits of adult life.” Eugene Peterson

“To have a spiritual imagination is to have eyes to see God’s world for what it truly is: the ground where God fills the whole earth with his glory. When God fills the world, we discover every conversation and vocation and human endeavor to be a burning bush. Holiness everywhere. God everywhere.” Winn Collier

1 Cor 15

v.12

vv.33-34

vv.13-18

Last week’s bottom line: If we lose the resurrection, we lose the gospel. And if we lose the gospel, we lose everything.

v.19

vv.29-32

If there’s no resurrection, what’s the point of all that we do?!?

“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” CS Lewis

vv.20-22

• Firstfruits

v.23

vv.24-27

What’s the point?

 Christ’s resurrection gives us the PURPOSE our hearts desire and the PERSEVERANCE our hearts require.