Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:08:01 -0400 ZPC http://www.zpc.org Podcast Maker v1.3.6 - http://www.lemonzdream.com/podcastmaker theWord@ZPC Uncovers the Most Scandalous Congregation in the Bible and the Quest for a Beautiful Body Fall 2007 Semester: What church, more than any other, made the apostle Paul keep reaching for Extra Strength Tylenol? There’s little doubt it was the gathering of young Christians in the ancient Greek city of Corinth. Corinth was the Las Vegas of the ancient world: arrogant, immoral, and over-the-top… and proud of it. It seemed a most improbable place to recruit new followers of Jesus. Paul, however, invested several years in the city that unabashedly sponsored Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love. Not surprisingly, Corinth’s start-up congregation struggled with a laundry list of problems: openly flaunted disunity, sexual scandals, intra-church lawsuits, spiritual gift envy, divorce and remarriage, confused single adults, women’s liberation and oppression, speaking in tongues, and theological battles over the meaning of the resurrection. And you think today’s churches have problems. In truth, much of what we know about finding health for the body of Christ comes from Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. This fall and winter join Senior Pastor Glenn McDonald and ZPC lay teacher Jim Livengood as theWord@ZPC delves deeply into this extraordinary New Testament book. Winter 2008 Semester: Jesus loves his body. All those who trust Jesus automatically become part of his body on earth. Every day the Son of God carries out his global mission of listening, loving, giving, and serving through Christians who are willing to do his work. The apostle Paul’s correspondence that has come to be known as First Corinthians is the “body life” book of the New Testament. In its chapters, Paul provides instructions as to how our spiritual gifts and our acts of love can transform our relationships and change the world. You’re invited to join Senior Pastor Glenn McDonald and ZPC Lay Teacher Jim Livengood as they present a verse-by-verse study of the second half of First Corinthians at TheWord@ZPC during the winter semester of WednesdaysAlive! en 2007-2008 Zionsville Presbyterian Church ZPC zpc@zpc.org http://www.zpc.org/mp3s/theWord/07/Picture%201_144.jpg http://www.zpc.org 144 141 Christianity Zionsville, Zionsville Presbyterian Church, ZPC, Glenn McDonald, Jim Livengood, Corinth, Scandalous, Quest for a Beautiful Body no ZPC Week seven of the Quest for a Beautiful Body The most divisive issues in contemporary churches today — What kind of music glorifies God? Should worship be spontaneous or structured? Are charismatic gifts of the Holy Spirit still valid? — were divisive in the first century as well. Join Glenn McDonald as he looks at 1 Corinthians chapter 14. http://www.zpc.org http://www.zpc.org/mp3s/theWord/07/theWord02.20.08.mp3 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:45:00 -0500 Christianity no 01:14:00 Zionsville, Zionsville Presbyterian Church, ZPC, Glenn McDonald, Jim Livengood, Corinth, Scandalous ZPC Week six of the Quest for a Beautiful Body I Corinthians 13, the apostle Paul’s so-called “love chapter,” is one of the Bible’s most recognizable and poignant teachings. Join Glenn McDonald as TheWord@ZPC tackles this extraordinary block of verses. http://www.zpc.org http://www.zpc.org/mp3s/theWord/07/theWord02.13.08.mp3 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:45:00 -0500 Christianity no 01:14:07 Zionsville, Zionsville Presbyterian Church, ZPC, Glenn McDonald, Jim Livengood, Corinth, Scandalous ZPC Week four of the Quest for a Beautiful Body Then where would you look? Amazingly (even shockingly), Jesus answered that question by saying, “Look at my followers. They are my body on Earth.” But what happens when the present body of Christ doesn’t remotely resemble the original? Join Glenn McDonald as we continue to explore the book of first Corinthians. In preparation, read I Corinthians 12, which is the apostle Paul’s most detailed teaching on the church doing the work of God. http://www.zpc.org http://www.zpc.org/mp3s/theWord/07/theWord01.30.08.mp3 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:45:00 -0500 Christianity no 01:14:48 Zionsville, Zionsville Presbyterian Church, ZPC, Glenn McDonald, Jim Livengood, Corinth, Scandalous ZPC Week two of The Quest for a Beautiful Body http://www.zpc.org/mp3s/theWord/07/theWord01.16.08.mp3 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:45:00 -0500 Christianity no 01:04:24 Zionsville, Zionsville Presbyterian Church, ZPC, Glenn McDonald, Jim Livengood, Corinth, Scandalous ZPC Week one of The Quest for a Beautiful Body Jesus loves his body. All those who trust Jesus automatically become part of his body on earth. Every day the Son of God carries out his global mission of listening, loving, giving, and serving through Christians who are willing to do his work. The apostle Paul’s correspondence that has come to be known as First Corinthians is the “body life” book of the New Testament. In its chapters, Paul provides instructions as to how our spiritual gifts and our acts of love can transform our relationships and change the world. http://www.zpc.org http://www.zpc.org/mp3s/theWord/07/theWord01.09.08.mp3 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:45:00 -0500 Christianity no 01:14:12 Zionsville, Zionsville Presbyterian Church, ZPC, Glenn McDonald, Jim Livengood, Corinth, Scandalous ZPC Week ten of Uncovering the Most Scandalous Congregation in the Bible. Idols in the ancient Greek city of Corinth weren’t wannabe pop and country singers. They were rival deities competing for the heartfelt loyalty of men and women. The apostle Paul navigates the edgy issues of idol worship in I Corinthians chapter 8, which will be TheWord@ZPC’s final autumn Bible study. http://www.zpc.org http://www.zpc.org/mp3s/theWord/07/theWord11.14.07.mp3 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:45:00 -0500 Christianity no 01:16:16 Zionsville, Zionsville Presbyterian Church, ZPC, Glenn McDonald, Jim Livengood, Corinth, Scandalous ZPC Week nine of Uncovering the Most Scandalous Congregation in the Bible. http://www.zpc.org http://www.zpc.org/mp3s/theWord/07/theWord11.07.07.mp3 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:45:00 -0500 Christianity no 01:16:41 Zionsville, Zionsville Presbyterian Church, ZPC, Glenn McDonald, Jim Livengood, Corinth, Scandalous ZPC Week eight of Uncovering the Most Scandalous Congregation in the Bible. What is the Bible’s longest extended teaching on marriage? All 40 verses of I Corinthians chapter seven—which come from the apostle Paul’s letter to a first century church that thought “up was down and down was up” in most spiritual matters—comprise an amazing block of insight into the husband-wife relationship. http://www.zpc.org http://www.zpc.org/mp3s/theWord/07/theWord10.24.07.mp3 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:45:00 -0400 Christianity no 01:14:56 Zionsville, Zionsville Presbyterian Church, ZPC, Glenn McDonald, Jim Livengood, Corinth, Scandalous ZPC Week seven of Uncovering the Most Scandalous Congregation in the Bible. It was bad enough that the Corinthian church had a well-deserved reputation for moral line-crossing. Things became even worse when church members began suing each other. How did the exasperated apostle Paul respond? Jim Livengood will provide the answer — and insights into how the 21st century has eerily come to resemble the first. http://www.zpc.org http://www.zpc.org/mp3s/theWord/07/theWord10.17.07.mp3 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:45:00 -0400 Christianity no 01:13:31 Zionsville, Zionsville Presbyterian Church, ZPC, Glenn McDonald, Jim Livengood, Corinth, Scandalous ZPC Week six of Uncovering the Most Scandalous Congregation in the Bible. Borderline morality can always be found at some level in the church. But then there's Corinthian borderline morality, which crossed boundaries even in the corrupt Greco-Roman world of the first century — and drove the apostle Paul crazy. What advice did Paul give to those who were trying to deal with sexual offenders in the body of Christ? http://www.zpc.org/mp3s/theWord/07/theWord10.10.07_2.mp3 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:45:03 -0400 Christianity no 01:19:31 Zionsville, Zionsville Presbyterian Church, ZPC, Glenn McDonald, Jim Livengood, Corinth, Scandalous ZPC Week five of Uncovering the Most Scandalous Congregation in the Bible. Foolish — that’s how the apostle Paul felt about his relationship with the ancient church in Corinth. He had introduced them to Christ and taught them spiritual basics, but they had thrown Paul “under the bus” in their eagerness to cater to other teachers and divergent doctrines. Like a spurned lover, Paul fought back with both anger and grace, something apparent in the fourth chapter of I Corinthians, which Glenn McDonald will tackle at the midweek adult Bible study. http://www.zpc.org/mp3s/theWord/07/theWord10.03.07.mp3 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:45:00 -0400 Christianity no 01:13:21 Zionsville, Zionsville Presbyterian Church, ZPC, Glenn McDonald, Jim Livengood, Corinth, Scandalous ZPC Week four of Uncovering the Most Scandalous Congregation in the Bible. Not even a single generation went by before the earliest followers of Jesus broke into rival spiritual groups: the Peter Faction vs. the Paul Bunch vs. the Apollos Circle. And those were all competing for supremacy in just one church — that dysfunctional group of Christians at Corinth which never ceased to give Paul fits. In a world that today boasts more than 32,000 Christian denominations, what can we learn from Paul’s counsel to those first century disciples? http://www.zpc.org http://www.zpc.org/mp3s/theWord/07/09.19.07.mp3 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:45:22 -0400 Christianity no 01:13:36 Zionsville, Zionsville Presbyterian Church, ZPC, Glenn McDonald, Jim Livengood, Corinth, Scandalous ZPC Week three of Uncovering the Most Scandalous Congregation in the Bible. The Bible makes the extraordinary claim that God lives within those who follow Jesus. What does that feel like? How should we respond? What if we have never had such an experience? The apostle Paul introduces the person and work of the Holy Spirit in I Corinthians chapter two, which will be Glenn McDonald’s topic at TheWord@ZPC this week. http://www.zpc.org/mp3s/theWord/07/theWord09.19.07.mp3 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:45:00 -0400 Christianity no 01:13:36 Zionsville, Zionsville Presbyterian Church, ZPC, Glenn McDonald, Jim Livengood, Corinth, Scandalous ZPC Week two of Uncovering the Most Scandalous Congregation in the Bible. Even for Christians, Jesus simply cannot be tamed. We cannot put the Son of God in a box and believe that we finally have him figured out. The two primary audiences of Paul's day – the Jews and the Greeks – represented the highest expressions of morality and philosophy the world had ever seen. Yet both of these groups thought it laughable that the meaning of life was wrapped up in a peasant who was executed as a common criminal. What was Paul's response? What seems like the "foolishness" of God trumps the so-called wisdom of humanity. http://www.zpc.org http://www.zpc.org/mp3s/theWord/07/09.12.07.mp3 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:45:00 -0400 Christianity no 01:15:54 Zionsville, Zionsville Presbyterian Church, ZPC, Glenn McDonald, Jim Livengood, Corinth, Scandalous ZPC Introduction to the series Uncovering the Most Scandalous Congregation in the Bible. Corinth was perhaps the most improbable place to recruit new followers of Jesus in the first century. But the apostle Paul did precisely that, even though his relationship with Corinth resembled a ride on The Beast at King's Island Amusement Park. How should Christians relate to an arrogant and immoral culture: by scolding it, fleeing it, avoiding it, or transforming it? Paul's lessons have direct application for the church of the twenty-first century. http://www.zpc.org http://www.zpc.org/mp3s/theWord/07/09.05.07.mp3 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:45:00 -0400 Christianity no 01:15:24 Zionsville, Zionsville Presbyterian Church, ZPC, Glenn McDonald, Jim Livengood, Corinth, Scandalous