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Write a one-sentence summary of the teaching of 1 Corinthians. Then, explain how your sentence summarizes this epistle.
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Focus on Jesus and in that serve and love others.
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The teaching of 1 Corinthians is: Re-focus on the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ, to recover the oneness of the Church and to repair the divisions and disorder in her.
Content-wise, the book gives answers the problems raised by Chloe’s household and the questions raised by the Corinthian church. The problems include divisiveness and immorality, and the questions include marriage, food offered to idols, worship protocols, etc. These kinds of disunity and disorder need to be repaired. Yet the emphases given to the cross and the resurrection (in the second chapter and second last chapter), acting like bookends to the book, suggest that it is when the church is united by her belief in and gratitude for what Christ has done by dying and raising to life, that she can solve all these problems.
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The teaching of 1 Corinthians is the power of the cross and resurrection. The love God showed to us by sending his only son to die for us is more powerful, wiser and important than any human teachings on how to live the Christian life in a corrupt world.
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Paul was speaking wisdom about relationships within the church of Corinth to his brothers and sisters in Christ. His hope was to help the Christians within a diverse culture to navigate the arguments and disagreements that arose. He wanted to encourage them to seek unity and to practice the wisdom that he shared. He wanted them to understand Christ’s ways amid the marketplace of ideas that was revered in that day and place.
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If we focus on Jesus’s death and resurrection, all the other parts of faith will come together. God’s grace encompasses us and we want to live to please Him and make Him known to others.