Rest assured...I'm still on track when it comes to my daily dive into 1 and 2 Corinthians!
Even though this blog post is tackling the 5th chapter, I'm actually up to chapter 12. So I'm pretty pleased with my pace and it's been quit rewarding. I know I have mentioned this before, but I highly recommend doing a SLOW study or. chapter a day and then writing down your thoughts about the chapter you have read.
This has been the strategy I've been using for this and it's been awesome on so many levels!
Anyways, let's look at my super bad grammar in my hand written note below lol
I think I should have written down "The church can be filled with worse sinners than the world". That would have captured my thoughts on chapter 5 much better because if you haven't ever looked into this part of Paul's letter to Corinth, get ready for some uncomfortable moments.
The first verse sets the tone for Paul's rebuke of the church and sadly, this seems all too common in today's world.
It's very easy to point the finger at others, but here we see the finger being pointed directly back at us, the church. And the sins that sometimes go unnoticed by the world, but God always sees it.
You see this theme throughout the new testament, where we are called to come out from the world. We are to be a unique and peculiar people, meanwhile we still shake hands with the world and cling to her evils.
What does Paul say in the last part of this chapter?
This isn't pretty. This is strong rebuke. And saying if someone isn't repenting, that we should separate from them. As a verse above this reads..."Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?"
One of the more difficult chapters in 1 Corinthians, but a strong message of repentance for us all.
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Very interesting to have come across this post right after encountering a priest on the streets tonight.
He asked if we had a church; I told him we didn't. I was raised Roman Catholic but couldn't accept the statues due to idoltary. He said to me, "This is good." He recommended a church to me, I'm going to look into it.
The churches themselves are one thing, and it's terrible when the institution preaches incorrectly. As you said, when it's a person who refuses to repent, we must step away. Indulging in their destruction only contributes to our own.
I often quote the passage from Jesus:
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector." (Matthew 18:15-17)
Yeah it gets nasty when we force repentance on people. Smashing people over the head with the bible never seems to work out.
God works, we just need to keep people in prayer that He can work in them.
Love those verses in Matthew!!
The chapter 5 is very powerful and gives a meaningful lesson
Yes it is important to reflect to ourselves and repent
I think it is easy to overlook our own shortcomings while judging others