Paul is correcting a wrong view of gifts.
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 and 1 Chronicles 12:32. The problem is no longer not enough laws but too many, and of the wrong kind.
We see abuses at the Lord’s Supper – 11:17-22; the meaning of the Supper – 11:23-26; and now preparing to keep the Supper – 11:27-34.
The shattering news of little Emily’s inoperable brain tumour has dominated my thinking as nothing else could. One issue that arises is obviously ‘What can we pray for?’ Jesus’ disciples once begged Him: ‘Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples’ (Luke 11:1). Twice our Lord told parables …
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 and 1 Chronicles 12:32. Augustine: ‘A weeping man is better than a happy worm.’ Happiness will not stand on its own two feet. Compare a bitter woman in a wheelchair at last week’s anti-euthanasia rally to Joni Eareckson: ‘I’d rather be in this chair, knowing Him, …
These are the familiar words read out every communion service.
In the New Testament the Lord’s Supper was either a full meal of bread and wine or was celebrated at the end of the agape or love-feast. See Jude 12. Paul deals with abuses at the Supper (11:17-22); the meaning of the Supper (11:23-26); and the right participation in …
We seek to take every thought captive to Christ – 2 Cor.10:3-5. To do that we need some grasp of our times – 1 Chron.12:32. Blaise Pascal: ‘When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill …
It may be that some at Corinth misunderstood Galatians 3:28. Does the new creation obliterate the old creation? No, for there are gender distinctions in worship as elsewhere. There are worldly traditions (Matt.15:2, 3,6; Gal.1:14; Col.2:8) and there are apostolic traditions (11:2; 1 Thess.2:15; 3:6).
