secret things of God.” Even the apostles were ministers, not masters! They were fundamentally servants, not of the Corinthians but of Christ. As Matthew Henry put it, “They had no authority to propagate their own fancies, but to spread Christian faith.”3 They were sent out to preach the gospel and so see churches created. Why does the postal service exist? What do we pay mailmen to do? Do we pay them to write letters to us and put them in our mailboxes? No. We pay them to deliver faithfully the message
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