1 Corinthians
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- Corinth was a major port city in the ancient world and had lots of temples to Greek and Roman gods. It was a big economic center and so Paulstrategically came here as a missionary.
- He spent a year and a half there getting to know people, talking to them about Jesus and a whole bunch of people became followers of Jesus and formed a church community.
- So after a while Paul moved on to start churches in other cities and he started getting reports that things were not going well at all back at the church in Corinth. He was plagued by all kinds of problems and that's why he wrote this letter.
- Big problems with Corinth!
- We follow Paul!
- We follow Apollos!
- In chapters 1-4, the problem is that there are these divisions in the church. There are some other teachers who had come through town since Paul left. A guy named Apollos, and then Peter, and people had picked their favorite teacher and then became groupies around that leader and then started to talk bad and disrespect people who favored another leader or teacher.
- We follow Peter!
- St. Paul's respond with the Gospel: The church is not a popularity contest. The church is the community of people who are centered around Jesus. Its leaders and its teachers are simply servants of Jesus.
- Jesus and the Good News
- In chapters 5-7, Paul addresses some problems related to sex. There were a number of people sleeping around in the church. One guy with his stepmother and a number of other people still worshipping at the local temples to Greek gods and sleeping with the prostitutes who worked there.
- We are free in Christ!
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