For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.— 1 Corinthians 11:26 (NIV) So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.— 1 Corinthians 11:33 (ESV) Paul brings his long discussion of food sacrificed to idols to a close with a…
Christian unity is easy to talk about in the abstract, but much harder to live out in the ordinary circumstances of life. We can agree that the church should be unified while still finding it difficult to spend time with people who are different from us, bear the burdens of people whose struggles we do…
The church in Corinth was a mess. There were divisions among believers, sexual immorality, lawsuits, confusion about marriage, abuse of the Lord’s Supper, arguments over spiritual gifts, and even doubts about the resurrection. By modern standards, it would be easy to dismiss Corinth as a failed church. Yet that’s not how the Apostle Paul begins…
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