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This quarter’s studies are on “1 and 2 Corinthians”
Paul began the church in Corinth during his second missionary journey, and spent eighteen months working there (Acts 18:11). It was in Corinth that the rejection of Jesus as the Messiah by the Jews led him to announce that he would take the good news to the foreigners (Acts 18:6).
Corinth was a port city and major trading center with a reputation for lax morality and widespread sensuality. The Temple of Apollo was served by one thousand women who acted as religious prostitutes and provided the city with a significant income. It was against such a background that Paul presented the gospel, and his success is the more surprising in light of rampant decadence and paganism. Sometimes we make the argument that we live in very different circumstances to the early church, but Corinth is not much different to our pleasure-seeking secular world.
The reason for writing 1 Corinthians was to respond to the increasing disorder in the Corinthians church caused by a return by some to their former lifestyles, and to respond to the many questions of theological and practical consequence that members had raised in a letter to him. This latter point is very significant in interpreting 1 Corinthians, since Paul often quotes their words and then responds.
So what can we learn from Paul’s first stay in Corinth? Most of the information is in Acts 18. Paul leaves Athens, having had limited success there, and travels to Corinth where he meets a Jew names Aquila and his wife Priscilla. He stays with them because they are in the same business as him, making tents. At some point they accept the good news and become Christians, and when Paul left for Ephesus they went with him, and were active missionaries (Acts 18:18, 26).
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