Fundamentalist

There’s a lesson in golf, when you’re not hitting the ball well, to check the fundamentals. You can do this while you’re playing. A famous player Ben Hogan said there’s only 5 - grip, stance, waggle & swing plane, start downswing, swing path. When things seem confusing or are not working it’s good to « go back to basics ».

This week, I can’t remember why, I was reminded of 1 Corinthians 15, what the Gospel is. I found there’s more there than the basic message, if you want a passage to explain to someone what you believe, and you can’t remember the Apostles Creed, or anything I’ve told you, go to 1 Corinthians 15 !

Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time. For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Come forward for Communion if you need prayer this morning.