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Let’s BEgin: 1st Corinthians 1:1-3
March 1st 2026

Ice Breakers: If your family gave you a “Most Likely To…” award, what would it be?

1. Identity Before Behavior

Paul calls the Corinthians “sanctified” and “saints” before he rebukes them.
Read: 1 Corinthians 1:2, Ephesians 1:4–5, 1 Peter 2:9
• Do you tend to define yourself more by your failures or by your identity in Christ?
• In what area of your life right now (family, work, school, private habits) do you most need to remember: “I am a saint in Christ”?
• How might believing that change how you respond to temptation or discouragement this week?

2. In the World, Not Of It

Corinth had absorbed the culture around it. Paul writes to reorient them.
Read: Romans 12:2; John 17:15–18
• Where do you feel the strongest cultural pressure right now? (Sexual ethics? Success? Politics? Individualism? Self-promotion?)
• In your workplace or school, what would it look like to be distinct without being self-righteous?
• Are there areas where you may have slowly “Corinthianized” without realizing it?

3. Viewing Fellow Christians as Saints

Paul calls a messy church “saints.”
Read: Colossians 3:12–14
• Is there someone in this church (or in your family) whom you tend to see mainly through the lens of their flaws?
• How would your posture toward them change if you consciously viewed them as “a saint in process”?
• What is one practical way you could treat someone this week as a fellow saint rather than as an annoyance or problem?

4. The Church Belongs to God

“The church of God that is in Corinth…”
Read: Acts 20:28; Hebrews 10:24–25
• Do you relate to church more as a consumer or as someone who belongs to something that belongs to God?
• How might your engagement change if you remembered this church is not primarily “Brian’s church” or “my church” but God’s church?
• What is one way you can more intentionally build up the local church this month?

5. Grace and Peace in Daily Life

“Grace to you and peace…”
Read: Romans 5:1–2; Philippians 4:6–7
• Where in your life do you currently lack peace?
• How does remembering that you stand in grace (unearned favor) change how you approach conflict at home, pressure at work, or anxiety about the future?
• What would it look like to bring “grace and peace” into a tense relationship this week?

6. Saints in Process

You said: “We are saints in process, loved in our mess.”
Read: Philippians 1:6; 2 Corinthians 3:18
• Where do you see evidence that God is still reshaping you?
• Where do you feel stuck or discouraged?
• What would trusting that “God is not finished yet” look like in a very concrete way this week?

7. Belonging to Jesus in Real Life

1 Corinthians helps us think about everyday holiness — bodies, relationships, conflict, worship.
Read: 1 Corinthians 6:19–20
• If your body and life truly belong to Jesus, what is one habit that needs re-evaluating?
• In your family or workplace, where do you most need to remember: “I belong to Christ”?
• What would change tomorrow morning if you actually lived from that reality?

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