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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 sacrifice or put up for sale in the slaughterhouse. The temple served as not only a place of worship but also as a butcher shop. Anyone eating such meat might be considered a worshiper of the deity to which the sacrifice had been made, whether Artemis or Hermes or Apollo. Anyone who resolved to refrain from eating meat sacrificed to idols barred himself from participation in the public issues of the city as well as from local festivals and was hindered from rubbing shoulders with fellow citizens.
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