Welcome to the 10-minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it is one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one's about 1 Corinthians.

The book's 1 Corinthians is a letter written by the Apostle Paul to a church that he helped

found in Corinth.

And the occasion of the writing of this letter is that everything is horrible.

The church is going off the rails and any way they can think of to screw things up they

have thought of.

Now you might be tempted, along with me to be like stupid other people, always getting

things wrong.

How can they not know better?

But then you step back and you think about it for a minute and it becomes pretty easy

to cut these folks some slack and to want to be patient with them.

Think about how this church in Corinth happened.

Paul shows up there.

He stays with them for a very long time because people are hearing about the message of

Jesus and it's awesome.

They're even seeing miraculous stuff and their minds are changed, their hearts are changed.

But also they don't know how to do church, they don't have a Bible yet, no New Testament

at least.

And they're deeply rooted in the culture that they've been a part of forever.

There's no template for what church looks like yet.

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