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Mark Dever addresses twelve major challenges that faced the church in the first century and that still face the church today. The church Paul had seen established in Corinth in the first century was young and full of life-and just as full of problems. No single church in the New Testament had so many and such a diversity of problems. The church was plagued by partisanship, pride, immorality,...

the focus of their frustrated anger. Whatever happened to him? “Paul … and our brother Sosthenes” (1 Cor. 1:1). It appears that he, too, was converted. Two consecutive synagogue rulers were converted in Corinth. David Prior tells of what he calls “a parallel situation … at Oxford University in the early 1960s during the heyday of the Humanist Society. Its president was converted to Christ, which led to an extraordinary general meeting of the Society. The person then elected was himself converted
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