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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.
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).
Throughout the first chapter Paul deals with law (1:1-11, 18-20) and grace (1:12-17).
