Welcome to the Crazy Love Podcast. Have you ever wondered how the Church can maintain

its distinctiveness in a divided world? Well, in this week's episode, Francis Chan

explores how God's people can find unity, adopt the mind of Christ, forsake worldly

security, and walk in an unwavering faith.

I don't know if you guys did the reading this morning, but there was a verse or a couple

verses that I really love that I just want to point out and make our theme today because

it just hit me this morning. It was in 1 Corinthians, which I loved the book of 1 Corinthians.

1 Corinthians chapter 3, listen to what he says, chapter 3 verse 3, while there is jealousy

and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? For when

one says, I follow Paul and another, I follow Paulos, are you not being merely human?

That's such a great phrase. He goes, what are you doing? You guys are acting like humans?

This is what humans do. That's not what we do. Okay, there you go. Oh, I love this guy,

Paul. I love this guy, Paulos. I like them more. I like, he goes, that's human talk.

He goes, when you start doing that, and compare this speaker to that speaker, this band,

and there's these divisions among you, you're acting like the rest of the world. You're

acting like mere humans. And God says, that's not what we do. You understand as a church,

he says, I want you to be holy because you're not just humans. Man, I hear that phrase.

Sometimes some of you in the church, you may have sent this. What do you expect from me?

I'm just a man. I'm just a woman. I'm human. No, you're not just a man. You're not just

a woman. You're not just a human. He goes on to explain your temple of the Holy Spirit of God.

Okay, so we don't do things like the rest of the world does it. We're different from them.

We're supposed to be a light to the world. And so if there's divisions among us, which

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