Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast

The Whole Council of God. Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the

Reformed Church, but now an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church

in Lafayette, Louisiana.

So in just a few moments when we get started, we're going to be picking up in St. Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians chapter 15 verse 1, which is where we left off last time,

if you're someone here in Lafayette who usually

comes to the Bible study in real space, in real time, at the parish. But before, do that,

just to give some sort of background and catch us back up to where we're going to be picking up

tonight, the structure of First

Corinthians is a little different than the overarching structure of some of St. Paul's other

epistles. Of course, notably the other one that we've talked about is St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans.

And St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans when we talked about it, this Bible study,

we talked about how that epistle, overarching structure, follows a general structure

that St. Paul uses a lot in his epistles, which is that the first part of the epistle, he lays out what we would call doctrinal or theological considerations.

Not that it's not topical, and we'll talk more about that a little later about about the fact that once again, St. Paul's

epistles are occasional documents. But he lays out sort of theological considerations.

And then there's a point in the middle of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans where he uses

the word, therefore. And that's a place where he then transitions from laying out sort of the

theological basis of his discussion. He transitions from that over to applying that more directly

to the situation of the Christian community in Rome. So as we've already talked about in 1st Corinthians,

when St. Paul is writing here to the Christian community in Corinth,

he doesn't follow that structure, that two-part structure,

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