Jan 20, 2020
Paul knows the congregation has lots of troubles. Their dysfunction is not revealing the hope of Christ to anybody. We live in a world, not unlike Corinth, where the Church is as likely to reveal despair as it is hope. The opening of Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians sets a tone for how he will address the bad behavior and revive hope in the congregation then and now. It all has something to do with Jesus…