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2
Corinthians:
"The Extraordinary Christian Life"
I.
2 Cor 1 Getting and Giving Comfort
Goal: They need to learn how to give comfort
to others who are suffering
A.
Background of Paul's situation
B.
We live in a fallen World
C.
Getting comfort from God
1.
First, need to accept His son
2.
Second, need to develop a prayer life
D.
Giving comfort to others who
are suffering
1.
Put yourself in their shoes
2.
Give practical, easy to do examples on how to encourage
others in the midst of their suffering.
II.
2 Cor 2 Understanding Church
Discipline & Restoration
Goal: Persuade on why church discipline is
needed.
A.
Background on the specific excommunication. (see also 1st Cor 5)
B.
Describe church discipline and why it is so important
C.
Describe restoration and why it is so important
D.
Application Points
1.
Challenge students to take serious sins seriously
2.
Are we confronting other students when they are in sin?
3.
Are we helping the restoration process? (come up with practical
easy to implement ideas)
III.
2 Cor 3 Sharing the Greatness
of the New Covenant
Goal: Verse 12: Boldness in our speech
A.
Describe the old and the new covenants and the various differences
B.
Describe the superiority of the new covenant
1.
Vs 17 = liberty and freedom
2.
Vs 18 = ability to change
C.
Application Points
1.
Challenge them to be bold in their Christian verbal witness
2.
Give them a specific challenges.
IV.
2 Cor 4 Handling Suffering
Goal = vs 1: Convince them not to lose heart
during suffering
A.
Describe the kinds of suffering Paul endured and relate it to verses
7-12
B.
Describe spiritual breaking (maybe read up on Watchman Nee "Release
of the Spirit). But describe
in an easy concrete way.
C.
Describe purpose for this breaking. See verse 12
1.
Show how verse 12 is one of the main reasons we endure.
2.
Namely, we endure because it can produce life in others. It makes an impact on others spiritually as
we endure.
D.
Application
1.
Show our typical response to suffering
2.
Give concrete, practical ways they can cooperate with
God
3.
Challenge them to cooperate with God by giving them 1 practical thing
they can do this week.
V.
2 Cor 5 The Eternal Perspective
and Eternal Rewards
Goal: convince them to live for the eternal
instead of the temporal
A.
Describe temporal things and eternal things.
1.
Maybe descriptions of eternal things and descriptions of temporal things.
2.
Describe the superiority of God's eternal things over earthly temporal
things
B.
Define eternal rewards (See verse 10)
C.
Correlate eternal rewards with whether or not they lived for eternal
or temporal things.
D.
Application
1.
Convince them to live for the eternal
2.
Give them practical, yet challenging ideas on how they can live
for the eternal even though they live in a world focused on the temporal.
VI.
2 Cor 7 Regret or Repentance?
Goal: Convince them to aim for repentance,
not just regret.
A.
Describe Paul's situation with the Corinthian church.(How Paul caused them sorrow)
B.
Describe difference between repentance and regret.
1.
Maybe compare and contrast Peter and Judas. Both sinned, but Peter repented. Judas only felt regret.
C.
Describe how discipline is to produce repentance, not just regret
D.
Application
1.
Try to show how a lack of repentance is bogus or weak or uncool
2.
Try to give them something practical here.
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