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The First Letter to the Corinthians is unavailable, but you can change that!

This careful, sometimes innovative, mid-level commentary touches on an astonishingly wide swath of important, sensitive issues—theological and pastoral—that have urgent resonances in twenty-first century life. Roy Ciampa and Brian Rosner reveal how 1 Corinthians directly addresses the claims of unity and truth, church discipline, sexual matters, the Lord’s Supper, the nature of love, Christian...

which the Supper itself represents (v. 25) and reaffirms and thereby sin against the one who established that covenant and Supper and who presides as Lord of that table. Given the identification that is established between Christ and his people through their participation in his death and the other-centered focus of the new covenant Christ has established, it is probably best to understand that both ideas are in mind. To worship Christ in a way that shows disrespect toward those who are have been
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