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gospel with your family members or friends who don't know Jesus? I wrote a short

resource called Gospel Threads to help you intentionally share Christ in the

fabric of your normal conversations around the table or the living room or wherever you are,

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Just go to radical.net slash share Jesus.

Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical. net.

1st Corinthians chapter 1 verse 10

I appeal to you brothers by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that all of you agree

and that there be no divisions among you but that you be united in the same mind

and the same judgment.

This verse really sets the stage for a lot of what's to come in First Corinthians,

because Paul is addressing Christians in Corinth who were

experiencing disunity with one another. He goes on to talk about after this how

different people are saying, well I follow

Paul or I follow Apollo or I follow Apollo S or I follow Christ like Jesus had just

become one option among those who people were following and some people were

saying well I'm with Paul over here I'm with Cevas over here or I'm with Apollo

over there some people saying I'm with Christ over here like no this is not a recipe for

unity in the church this is a recipe for disunity in the church and it can happen

so easily whether it's particular teachers or particular traditions or particular

preferences in the church that people can kind of rally around and all of a sudden you have

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