THE CHURCH AT CORINTH (1 OF 3)
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:1-9
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The Church at Corinth (1 of 3)
Series: The Church at Corinth
Marvin Patterson
I Corinthians 1:1-9
Introduction
We are starting a new series of messages on Sunday Evenings that will examine the Church at Corinth. This church had a lot to be desired. Paul loved the people, and even help organize and start this church, but it had declined into a very worldly church that was very permissive and apathetic! Paul is writing this first Epistle to help straighten out their problems, and to instruct them in the doctrines of the Lord!
Keith Krell adds an excellent summary of this church with the following words:
Imagine with me a church wracked with divisions and factions. There are preaching cults where church members favor one particular preacher over another. Imagine a church filled with sexual immorality. Some of the members are visiting prostitutes. One church member is having an affair with his stepmother. Imagine a church where believers don’t work out their problems. Instead, they sue each other in secular courts. Imagine a church where debates rage on topics like Christian liberty, men’s and women’s roles, prophecies, and speaking in tongues. And to top it off, imagine a church where the Lord’s Supper is abused and a significant number do not even believe in the bodily resurrection of Christ!
Body:
1-Paul’s Introduction 1 Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, We see in the first verse that this Epistle was written by the Apostle Paul! He is writing to correct some problems that had crept into the church at Corinth. So we could say this is a letter of correction, rebuke, and advice from the old warrior who had spent the last thirty years going day and night planning churches and winning people to Jesus Christ! Sosthenes may have been Paul’s secretary who wrote down this letter as Paul dictated it. He was probably the Jewish synagogue leader in Corinth (Acts 18:17) who had been beaten d ...
Series: The Church at Corinth
Marvin Patterson
I Corinthians 1:1-9
Introduction
We are starting a new series of messages on Sunday Evenings that will examine the Church at Corinth. This church had a lot to be desired. Paul loved the people, and even help organize and start this church, but it had declined into a very worldly church that was very permissive and apathetic! Paul is writing this first Epistle to help straighten out their problems, and to instruct them in the doctrines of the Lord!
Keith Krell adds an excellent summary of this church with the following words:
Imagine with me a church wracked with divisions and factions. There are preaching cults where church members favor one particular preacher over another. Imagine a church filled with sexual immorality. Some of the members are visiting prostitutes. One church member is having an affair with his stepmother. Imagine a church where believers don’t work out their problems. Instead, they sue each other in secular courts. Imagine a church where debates rage on topics like Christian liberty, men’s and women’s roles, prophecies, and speaking in tongues. And to top it off, imagine a church where the Lord’s Supper is abused and a significant number do not even believe in the bodily resurrection of Christ!
Body:
1-Paul’s Introduction 1 Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, We see in the first verse that this Epistle was written by the Apostle Paul! He is writing to correct some problems that had crept into the church at Corinth. So we could say this is a letter of correction, rebuke, and advice from the old warrior who had spent the last thirty years going day and night planning churches and winning people to Jesus Christ! Sosthenes may have been Paul’s secretary who wrote down this letter as Paul dictated it. He was probably the Jewish synagogue leader in Corinth (Acts 18:17) who had been beaten d ...
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