A Simple Solution

Posted by Blake Higginbotham

Let’s look at 1Cor 1 to start. Paul was writing to a highly gifted, disorganized and basically out of control church in desperate need of some adult, common sense type guidance and spiritually appointed leadership. He was sending this letter along prior to a planned visit to straighten out the mess. Their public gatherings were getting chaotic and becoming a bad witness resulting in a reproach on Christ’s servants and the church throughout the region. There was a power struggle going on among the different “parties” dividing the local body by the same thinking that produced the boundary lines found in the social, religious and political arenas of the mega city of Corinth itself. Paul knew that every local “family” would have a normal amount of bickering because of the different ages, ethnicity and the unwillingness of saints to move forward towards spiritual unity.

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