Gotta be all things to all people? I Corinthians 9.
I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings. ! Corinthians 9:22,23. Trying to please everybody all the time is a recipe for rapid burnout, crippling...
When misusing Christian freedom becomes a faith issue. Corinth, Greece, 50 CE.
At the time of St Paul, you bought your meat from the market place, but it had all been slaughtered at a nearby temple by a priest who had dedicated that meat to his god. For most Christians in Corinth, they knew that those ‘gods’ were not real like the Christian God...
False freedom vs Genuine Freedom.
‘All things are lawful for me’, but I won’t be enslaved by anything. 1 Corinthians 6:12. Some of the Corinthains, who had the Greek view that the body was not important, took the message about freedom in Christ in the wrong way. They used Christian freedom as an...
