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Cutting Ties with Darkness: 2 Corinthians is unavailable, but you can change that!

The story behind 2 Corinthians is one of pain and heartache. The Apostle Paul is wrestling to maintain his relationship with the young church in Corinth that he established. Paul writes this deeply personal letter to pick up the pieces of a broken relationship. We all have painful stories and relationships that are on the rocks. In Cutting Ties with Darkness, John D. Barry explores how we deal...

Paul is telling us to make a concerted effort to ensure that we are set apart for Christ’s work and that we don’t allow anything or anyone to impede that. Since Paul knows that the easiest way for Christ’s work to be impeded is by partnering too closely with unbelievers—thus allowing for their influence to be more powerful than Jesus’ in our lives—he commands us to separate from “the middle of them”—their territory, where they have too much control over us. Practically, this means that we cannot