Mark Clark [00:00:00]:
The one thing we all know, there's room for improvement. There's a way we can all be in the world and we settle, or there's a way to be truly human. There's a way to view our lives. We're kind of on this plane where we answer the questions of origins and meaning and morality and destiny, and we look and we go, okay, I'm good. Or we can push and get on a whole other plane altogether if we're willing to explore, if we're willing to go deeper and find actual answers, not that make us comfortable, but that are true and give us ultimately the adventure that we all pine after. We feel the tension. We don't even know if God exists. We doubt.
Mark Clark [00:00:46]:
No miracles. Science only. And God certainly doesn't speak anymore. You want to do this or that? We want to sue that guy because he deserves it. I want to have sex with that person. I want more money. Trade out my spouse. Can I do a redo with my kids? What in the world, but not of it.
Mark Clark [00:01:06]:
And you feel the tension. In the first century, there was this city, Corinth. It was like our world. Every pleasure imaginable. People gone wild. Some became Christians, but they just kept on living like everybody else. Getting hammered, ripping people off, having sex with everyone and anyone. Walking away from marriages, having crazy church services, charismatic chaos, believing crazy things about God, Heaven, hell, the end of the world, fitting right in, in every way that mattered.
Mark Clark [00:01:37]:
So their pastor, the apostle Paul, writes them this scathing letter, First Corinthians, where he calls them out on all of this. Your theology is bad. Your life is off course. You're doing crazy things. You're looking to all the wrong stuff to find. Find the answers to your deepest longings. But here's how to fix it all. Here's how to think right, act right, live right.
Mark Clark [00:01:58]:
Belief, belonging, behavior. He literally hits everything in this book. God, sex, money, miracles, lawsuits, death, the end of the world, head coverings, what? We're gonna explore it all. The point of the church is not to look and feel and sound like everybody else. It's to be different. To find life and joy and happiness and fulfillment in the strangest place of all. Let me tell you where that is. I'm Mark Clark, and this is the Bible's masterclass on life.