1 Corinthians

This course will take you on an exciting journey through Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians. This first epistle majors on knowledge and life application. For the bulk of those at Corinth, pagan religion and Greek ideologies about “knowledge”, represented by concepts and theories detrimental to true holistic life, ruled the roost. One could believe, or believe in, all sorts of things without ever seeing any behavioural life change. However, for Paul the Hebrew, the “knowledge” he brought to them was very different. This was a “knowledge”, which if ingested correctly, would so alter their lives that Paul said that it would cause them to “die to self.” Of course, the “knowledge” to which I am referring is the gospel. This gospel carried relational implications for them in terms of their relationship with God and their relationship with other people. These relationships were stretched to their breaking point as the people faced the daily challenges of life as Christians. Time-and-again, you will get a chance to read how God’s inspired apostle advises on how to live the Christian life in a diabolical world, and let me tell you, nothing has changed.

Paul tackles topics like:

• authentic leadership
• what is true wisdom?
• divisions within the church
• problematic church members
• societal and cultural influences upon the local church
• the nature of the human body
• sex
• marriage
• divorce
• spiritual gifts and ministries
• running the local church
• Holy Communion
• the correct use of authority
• the resurrection
• dealings about money.

Most of Paul’s advice to those at Corinth still applies to us today. Therefore, you will find this course highly appropriate for your Christian life.