Bible Study: March 18, 2026

Prayer

Since last week, has God answered any of our prayers? Let us know! Or, share something great that's happened in the last week. Then, let’s focus on our present prayer requests: What's on your mind or heart that we can pray for concerning you or someone you love?

Praise

Build Your Kingdom Here

Come set Your rule and reign

In our hearts again

Increase in us we pray

Unveil why we're made

Come set our hearts ablaze with hope

Like wildfire in our very souls

Holy Spirit come invade us now

We are Your church

We need Your power in us

We seek Your kingdom first

We hunger and we thirst

Refuse to waste our lives

For You're our joy and prize

To see the captive hearts released

The hurt, the sick, the poor at peace

We lay down our lives for heaven's cause

We are Your church We forever will be

We are Your church

We are the hope on earth

Build Your kingdom here

Let the darkness fear

Show Your mighty hand

Heal our streets and land

Set Your church on fire

Win this nation back

Change the atmosphere

Build Your kingdom here, we pray

Unleash Your kingdom's power

Reaching the near and far

No force of hell can stop

Your beauty changing hearts

You made us for much more than this

Awake the kingdom seed in us

Fill us with the strength and love of Christ

We are Your church

We are the hope on earth

Passage: 1 Corinthians 1:1-9

1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosth-en-es, 2 To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 4 I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that has been given you in Christ Jesus, 5 for in every way you have been enriched in him, in speech and knowledge of every kind— 6 just as the testimony of Christ has been strengthened among you— 7 so that you are not lacking in any gift as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ. 8 He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you may be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the partnership of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Ponder

1. What warms your heart from the song or biblical passage above, and why?

2. Verse two tell is that the church in Corinth is “sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints.” However, we are also aware that the Corinthian church had more than a couple of messy problems going on inside of it. And yet, there Paul is, speaking with a high view of them. Curious: what do you think that tell us about God—or perhaps us—when we aren’t feeling all that…well…saintly?  

3. Take a look at the second part of verse two here. Did you notice to whom the letter is addressed? It’s also “together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” How does that kind of a opening change or challenge your view when it comes to individual congregations and our relationship with the global church? How do you think we are/remain connected to church congregations that we’ve never even met?

4. Paul says, “I give thanks to my God always for you…” In short, we see gratitude before the correction. Think for a moment at you approached someone firstly with gratitude before a ‘rumble’ and how it helped

5. Paul says a very interesting thing here: he says that the church in Corinth is “not lacking in any gift as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ” and yet, the church still struggled. What do you think that teaches us about the difference between having gifts and using gifts in the local church?

6. Let’s get a little more personal here. Paul says that God  “will also strengthen you to the end, so that you may be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.” But this is written in a future tense. This is something that is going to happen. But as of now? It may not be feeling that way for Corinth. So here’s the question: when you are feeling spiritually stuck or discouraged, how does it feel knowing that God is committed to finishing what He started in you/y'all?

Purposeful Prayer

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