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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...

Contaminated and confused! That was the church at Corinth. Their problems (chapters 1–6) arose from their contamination with the world. Their questions (chapters 7–16) arose from their confusion about certain aspects of Christian truth. As we saw in the previous chapter, even Paul’s words of greeting seem to be not a mere empty formality, but calculated to go immediately to the solution of their problems. He reminded them of his calling to be
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