| | | |---|---| |1. Since the church is the dwelling place of God’s Spirit, the people who make up the church should work for unity by building each other up.|1:10–4:21 (esp.3:10–16; 14:12)| |2. Christians should build up the church in four practical ways:|| |a. they should be sensitive to those of fragile faith.|8:1–9:18; 10:28, 33| |b. they should win unbelievers through culturally sensitive evangelism.|9:19–23; 10:27, 32–33| |c. they should conduct worship services in such a way that unbelievers present might come to faith.|14:16, 23–25| |d. their corporate worship should use spiritual gifts not for personal display, or evaluating who has a better gift, but to build up the church.|11:2–16; 12:12–30; 14:1–35| |3. Sexual relations form a union between man and woman as profound as the union of the believer with Christ, and so sexual activity should be confined to marriage.|5:1–13; 6:12–20; 7:5, 9, 36| |4. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper are important, but both are subordinate to personal trust in the gospel and to living in the way that God commands.|1:14–17; 10:1–5; 11:17–34; 15:29–34| |5. The bodily resurrection of Jesus (and of his followers) from the dead is a critical component of Christian faith and practice.|6:14; 15:1–58|