Gospel Clarity in a Confusing Culture // Sacrificial Love for the Sake of the Church and the World

Kyle Kauffman | May 17 2026The Christian life involves sacrifice. It involves being willing to lay down our rights, give up our freedom, and make sacrifices that can prove costly, difficult, uncomfortable, and painful. This can be at odds with a world that tells us to hold onto our rights and freedoms at all costs. We can easily make an idol of our rights and freedoms and forget that rights and freedoms in this world are given to us so that we might use them to glorify God by loving others and advancing the gospel. In 1 Corinthians 8 and 9, Paul is calling the Corinthians to lay down their freedom in order to love one another and he is showing how he lays down his rights in order to advance the gospel. As we consider these chapters we are invited into living a life that reflects our Savior. We are called to consider what sacrifices God might want us to make. And we discover that the gospel gives us the power to make those sacrifices.