We're going to be 1 Corinthians chapter 8 if you want to take your Bibles and go to 1st Corinthians

chapter 8. If you're new here to Cornerstone, this is what we do. We go straight through the Bible

cover to cover. And so we find ourselves here in the 8th chapter of 1st Corinthians. As a reminder,

if you are new to our Bible study, back in chapter 7, in the previous chapter,

in verse 1, Paul wrote this. He said, now concerning the things of which you wrote to me,

which tells us that the first six chapters of Corinthians was basically a long introduction

of Paul dealing with some things that the church was not doing

all that well concerning.

And then starting in chapter 7, he addresses questions that they have previously written to him

about, which tells us that the letter of 1st Corinthians was actually a letter written in

response to questions that the church had there

in Corinth, which is in modern Greece, and we find that they had four particular questions

related to faith and practice. Now, remember, this is the first century AD. This is the Roman

Empire. This church had only been planted by Paul about five years earlier

from the time that Paul wrote this letter and so they are relatively a young church they are

new in the Lord they're only five years old the church at Corinth was made up of some Jewish

believers in Jesus but mostly Gentile believers in Jesus, meaning these are

people who had lived in the Roman Empire and had been exposed to the culture of the Roman Empire,

the paganism of the Roman Empire, the occult worship of the Roman Empire, trust to Christ as their

Savior, and now they're attending church, but they have a lot of

questions. I mean, you get saved out of that kind of a pagan culture, you're going to have some

questions. You get saved out of any culture. You come into church, some of you who might be new in the

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