Last week, Paul addressed the tension created between the Corinthian believers’ responsibility to other believers, and their freedom as believers. This week he applies the distilled principles to his life.

“You must abstain from eating food offered to idols, from consuming blood or the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. If you do this, you will do well.…

The genius of Paul’s reply to the Corinthians is that he avoids the extremes of asceticism and hedonism and refuses to prize too highly either single or married life.

Christians have been joined to Christ’s body: they must honor God in the way they use their own bodies. “This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and…

Chapters 5-7 comprise the second essay found in Paul’s letter to the church in Corinth. This essay addresses sexual integrity. The Corinthians were deluding themselves, not realizing that rejecting God’s…

Corinth straddled a narrow isthmus between two waterways, with ports on each side bustling with seafarers.  Aphrodite, the sexual goddess, was the city’s patron deity. Inevitably, the promiscuity of the…

A steward or manager is a servant who manages everything for his master, but who himself owns nothing. The responsibility of the steward is to be faithful to his master.…

The Corinthians have received The Spirit, exercised His gifts, and grown in wisdom and knowledge, but are now using what they have learned and experienced in a destructive way, rather…

“There is a wisdom that all Christians have by the mere fact that they have the Spirit living in them, but it is appropriated only when they yield themselves to…

IMAGINE A CHURCH wracked by divisions.  Leaders promote themselves against each other. Sexual immorality is rampant, and seen as an expression of freedom in Christ.  Disagreements about men’s and women’s…