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A Model to Follow

Devotional: For you may have countless instructors in Christ, but you don’t have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.Therefore I urge you to imitate me.” (1 Corinthians 4:14-15) “Do as I say, not as I do,” we call this type of teaching/behavior hypocrisy. In Matthew 23:3, Jesus confronted the Pharisees for this kind of behavior, and turning to his disciples, he said: “So do and observe whatever they (Pharisees) tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice.” What a contrast with Paul’s words to the Corinthian church: “Imitate me.” Paul is not telling the church to wear the same clothes he wears, or to eat the same food, listen to the same music or podcasts, or follow the NY Yankees. Rather, he is calling the church to imitate his lifestyle of dying to self, and being ready to suffer and be counted as fools for the sake of the Gospel. In 1 Corinthians 11:1, Paul clarifies

Building God’s Temple: A Magnificent Project

“And so I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord said to David my father, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.” In 1 Kings 5-7, we see the construction of Solomon’s temple in Jerusalem. The temple was 90 feet long (a standard MLB baseball field). It was 30 feet wide (a full-size school bus) and 45 feet high (a four-story building). It took Solomon 7 years to build this temple and over 180.000 laborers. Once the temple was completed, the Ark of the Lord, which represented God’s presence