Events2Join

Paul wrote 1 Corinthians to a community in the middle of a culture war


Christian Spirituality Has A Place In Mainstream Business - Ziwani

... (1 Peter 2:11–12 MSG). Christians have always had ... It was an incredibly diverse community, coupled with a dramatic failure of leadership after Paul left to ...

1 Corinthians Authorship - 1166 Words - Bartleby.com

Most biblical scholars are comfortable setting the probable date for the writing of 1 Corinthians at 54-56 AD and the author as the apostle Paul.

Paul's Use of the Exodus Narrative in His Argumentation in 1 ...

121 In Corinthian culture, association with these prized leaders/teachers would increase ... Since Gnosticism was not developed when Paul wrote 1 Corinthians ...

047. 1 Corinthians Summary - Paul Tripp Ministries

He wants His people to have a new culture, a culture that has Him at the center. ... Paul writes: (2 Corinthians 4:7ff.) But we have this treasure in jars ...

Letter of Paul to the Galatians | Summary & Facts - Britannica

Paul the Apostle to Christian churches (exact location uncertain) that were disturbed by a Judaizing faction. Paul probably wrote the epistle ...

Introduction to 2 Corinthians | Evidence Unseen

16:8), after several people came from Corinth to inform him about what was happening there (1 Cor. 1:11-12; 16:15-18). In 1 Corinthians, Paul wrote that he was ...

“What We Have Received” (1 Corinthians 4:6-7)

This is what Paul teaches us next in verse seven. We've seen that we have to be grounded in the Bible, not presumptuous, be gracious to one another and not ...

Church Unity – 1 Corinthians 1:10-17

V11 starts by Paul addressing the elephant in the room. There was quarreling happening within the church. In other words, this wasn't a minor ...

“The Message of the Cross” A Sermon on 1 Corinthians 1:23-25

Paul believed that in Christ's dying and rising two important new things had occurred. First, there was now a new age of God' activity, and, ...

Whose Supper? 1 Corinthians 11:17-22 - Jon English Lee

The problem in Corinth was selfish divisions, it was divisive behavior, and Paul comes out of the gate pretty hard against it. Unlike earlier in verse 2, where ...

A note on nature and hairstyles in 1 Cor. 11:14–15 - Marg Mowczko

Bottom line: 1 Corinthians was primarily written to the church at Corinth and deals with issues and concerns of the church at Corinth in the mid ...

Corinth - Bible Questions

Paul's initial visit lasted about eighteen months, and he left sometime during the spring of A.D. 52. The books of I and II Corinthians were most likely written ...

1 Corinthians 9 Commentary | Precept Austin

Jack Arnold - By way of background, in chapter eight, the Apostle Paul dealt with the subject of doubtful things or questionable practices. In ...

New Creation, Corinth and the 'New Face' of Community in Christ ...

It is important to see how Paul confronts and critiques the κατὰ σάρκα cultural norms by which the Corinthians are evaluating both themselves and Paul and how ...

A Comparison of 1 Thessalonians and 1 Corinthians as a Means of ...

Paul wrote these initial letters to the churches at Thessalonica and Corinth within five or six years of each other.14 And in an interesting twist of providence ...

Ancient Corinth: Rich In History, Culture and Religion - Euscentia

We ran our eyes over the two letters Paul wrote to the Corinthians and found several references that tell us a little bit about the culture and ...

Titus: A Counter-Cultural Gospel for Cretans - The Bible Project

Finally, Titus needed to straighten out the Christians who were giving the gospel a bad reputation. Paul says gospel belief should result in a ...

(PDF) The significance of recent research on 1 Corinthians for ...

A flood of research literature on 1 Corinthians over the last fifteen years suggests an understanding of this epistle and of the ethos of the church in Corinth.

FIRST CORINTHIANS I. Introduction - Bible Commentaries

Since this epistle is written as a reaction to oral reports Paul had received about undesirable conditions in the church in Corinth,5 and also in answer written ...

1 Corinthians 9:19-23 - Sacrificing Our Liberty for the Sake of the ...

Paul's adaptation, his becoming “all things to all men”, relates to cultural practices that do not compromise the Gospel or the truth of God's revelation. For ...