Wow, that was quick. Just the way Everyone got quiet really quickly. That means you're ready for the word this morning. if you have not received like a 10 page handout, go ahead and raise your hand if you didn't receive that during the greeting time and we'll get some helpers that'll be distributing that.
And while those are being distributed, let me invite you guys to turn in your Bibles to 1 Corinthians chapter 11 to the passage that was read earlier in our service this morning. 1 Corinthians chapter 11, and for those of you that are visiting with us, we are doing a verse by verse, study through the book of 1 Corinthians, and as we continue in our study of, this book, we find ourselves once again in 1 Corinthians chapter 11 verses 2 through 16. And especially, I feel like I, I want to say this each Sunday that we're in this section. For those of you that are visiting, please know that the kinds of things that we're talking about right, right now are not the things that we normally are dealing with, but we've committed ourselves a little, about a year and a half ago to work our way through the entirety of 1 Corinthians and, and as we have been following through in our commitment on that, we are in chapter 11.
not because it's an easy section of scripture. In fact, if I could do what I wanted, I would run from this passage as quickly as I could or just skip over it, but we, we need to deal with this passage and we need to deal with it as thoroughly as possible. A couple. things that come to mind as far as dealing with this passage.
first of all, you guys remember back, a year and a half ago when we began our series on 1 Corinthians, I shared with you about, a pastor on the east coast. My brother was working as an associate pastor at this church, and he had decided to do a series to the book of 1 Corinthians. And he worked his way through chapters 1 through 10 and then when he finished chapter 10, the next Sunday, he started a series in another book. He just totally bailed out of 1 Corinthians, started a series in another book and never said a word of explanation for why he wasn't dealing with chapter 11....
