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Strengthening Christ's Church: The Message of 1 Corinthians is unavailable, but you can change that!

Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians was directed to a deeply troubled church in the midst of a very challenging world. The problem was that the church was contaminated by society’s sins and confused in its thinking. If this sounds hauntingly familiar it is because it hits perilously close to home. Today’s church finds herself in a frighteningly secular world, one in which paganism is...

the disease. Instead of their influencing Corinth for Christ, Corinth had influenced them, and the sins of society had cropped up in the church. John MacArthur says the Christians of Corinth could not get ‘decorinthianized’, and he proceeds to add these telling words: ‘They wanted to have the blessings of the new life but hang on to the pleasures of the old.’4 Their salt had indeed lost its savour, and their light had indeed been covered. So Paul began to write. It was not
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