The more excellent way sermons

THE MORE EXCELLENT WAY
TEXT: 1 Corinthians 12:27-31; 1 Corinthians 13:1-7

We have started on a series of sermons that looks back at the sermons of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism.

Because today is also Mother's Day, I looked through his sermons for something that might speak to the occasion and ended up choosing a sermon from the latter part of Wesley's ministry called "The More Excellent Way."

The title refers to the last line from 1 Corinthians 12.

The more excellent way sermons

Earlier in the chapter, Paul has been talking about all the spiritual gifts given to people for the building up of the Church. Paul points out that we are all one body, but that each part of the body has a different function. The eye is different from the leg, but you sure need both of them.

Spiritual gifts are like that. We need teachers and healers; we need those who pray and those who are wise. Whatever the gift, the body is incomplete if we don't have it, and we should work together with all our differences as one body