This week, Pastor Jermaine continued on with our 1 Corinthians series, this week focusing on Chapters 1 and 2.
The church in Corinth was experiencing huge amounts of division amongst themselves and against Paul.
They were fighting over different teachers and ranking them against one another. They were forming clicks and dividing over them, quarreling amongst one another in the name of wisdom.
Unfortunately, we see evidence of this trend continue in the church today as Christians bicker and divide over their consumer preferences.
In his letter, Paul is lovingly exposing their sin. He asks them: where is your humility and your reverence?
He points them back to the example of Jesus Christ and asks them to consider His life and death. He points them back to Jesus’s life of humility and of “going low;” concepts that were completely counter-cultural to both the culture of the time, and our current day.
The foolishness and simplicity of the Gospel remains the most powerful thing on the planet. If we are going to boast, let us boast in Christ and in the Gospel.
