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Paul’s Letters to a Troubled Church: I and II Corinthians is unavailable, but you can change that!

In these letters one sees the heart of pastor Paul and the practical-oriented, doctrinal mind of the Apostle to the Gentiles. These letters are a treasure of applied truth. Paul loved and worked with a factious, prideful, rebellious Gentile church, affected by Jewish false teachers.

death. The power is in the message, not in the messenger (not even in Paul, cf. 2 Cor. 10:10; 11:6). A segment of this church prided itself in rhetoric. A group of Jewish-oriented false teachers will come to Corinth and attack Paul over his lack of rhetorical speaking skills in 2 Cor 10–13. No flesh will glory before God (cf. 1:29; Eph. 2:9). © “so that the cross of Christ would not be made void” If humans could save themselves through their actions or intellect, then Christ’s death would not have
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