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The Corinthians letters are, perhaps more than any others in the New Testament, for churches and pastors. They deal with the problems of church life and with the way Paul, as the pastor par excellence, wrestled with those problems. Second Corinthians, in particular, presents us with a side of Paul we almost do not see elsewhere. Here Paul reveals his “down” side, if you please: the fact that he...

them. The word translated “preached” (euangelizo) is the source of our English word evangelize. Paul strings together three relative clauses to describe the Corinthian Christians’ relationship to the gospel he had preached to them. First, they had received it—looking to the past, their original reception of Paul and his message of salvation. Second, they now stand in it—looking to the present, to the firm footing one has in his relationship with God as a result of hearing the gospel with faith. Third,
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