An Introduction to 1st Corinthians
Tim Melton
1 Corinthians 1:1-9
The Bible is not just a book to be read and be studied. It is to be applied. It is good to listen to a sermon or even read our Bible in our daily devotional times, but one of the main goals of reading God's Word is so that we can apply it to our lives. The goal is for God's truth to affect how we think, how we talk, how we feel, and how we act. But that is easier said than done.
We live in a world that is hostile to the things of God. Because of this, living holy lives in the real world is often a challenge. As we struggle with the sin around us and the temptations with in us, and the sin patterns from our past we must remember who we are in Christ and that we have been made holy so that we can live holy lives.
This is the focus of 1 Corinthians. It was written to a real church, with real people, with real problems. 1 Corinthians is a letter written by the Apostle Paul, almost 2000 years ago, but we will see that these timeless truths still apply today.
As we seek to understand this letter it will help us if we know the historical context of Corinth and the Corinthian church.
Corinth had originally been founded in the 10th century B.C. It had been one of the largest and richest port cities in ancient Greece. It was strategically located on the isthmus that divided northern Greece and southern Greece (Peloponesse). It was the center of a north-south trade route by land and an east-west trade route by sea. A trip around the southern tip of Greece, known as the cape of Malea, would have added an additional 400 kilometers to the trip and those waters were so dangerous that there was a saying among the sailors of that time, ''A sailor never takes a journey around Malea until he first writes his will.'' Because of this most ships chose to pass through the isthmus of Corinth instead.
The isthmus was only 6.5 kilometers wide. Small ships would be dragged across the isthmus on wood ...
Tim Melton
1 Corinthians 1:1-9
The Bible is not just a book to be read and be studied. It is to be applied. It is good to listen to a sermon or even read our Bible in our daily devotional times, but one of the main goals of reading God's Word is so that we can apply it to our lives. The goal is for God's truth to affect how we think, how we talk, how we feel, and how we act. But that is easier said than done.
We live in a world that is hostile to the things of God. Because of this, living holy lives in the real world is often a challenge. As we struggle with the sin around us and the temptations with in us, and the sin patterns from our past we must remember who we are in Christ and that we have been made holy so that we can live holy lives.
This is the focus of 1 Corinthians. It was written to a real church, with real people, with real problems. 1 Corinthians is a letter written by the Apostle Paul, almost 2000 years ago, but we will see that these timeless truths still apply today.
As we seek to understand this letter it will help us if we know the historical context of Corinth and the Corinthian church.
Corinth had originally been founded in the 10th century B.C. It had been one of the largest and richest port cities in ancient Greece. It was strategically located on the isthmus that divided northern Greece and southern Greece (Peloponesse). It was the center of a north-south trade route by land and an east-west trade route by sea. A trip around the southern tip of Greece, known as the cape of Malea, would have added an additional 400 kilometers to the trip and those waters were so dangerous that there was a saying among the sailors of that time, ''A sailor never takes a journey around Malea until he first writes his will.'' Because of this most ships chose to pass through the isthmus of Corinth instead.
The isthmus was only 6.5 kilometers wide. Small ships would be dragged across the isthmus on wood ...
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