1 Corinthians (Lifechange Series) - Softcover

The Navigators

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ISBN 10: 0891095594 ISBN 13: 9780891095590

Verlag: Tyndale House Publishers, 1995

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Practical Instructions for Becoming Healthy Christians The Corinthian church was proud and prosperous. For them, the Apostle Paul had a stern reminder: Genuine spiritual maturity is found not through status and recognition but through faith, hope, and love. His practical instructions concerning divisions, sexuality, spiritual gifts, and worship are still profoundly relevant for developing healthy, mature churches today-the kind that grow healthy, mature Christians. LifeChange LifeChange Bible studies will help you grow in Christlikeness through a life-changing encounter with God's Word. Filled with a wealth of ideas for going deeper so you can return to this study again and again. Features ¿Cover the entire book of 1 Corinthians in 17 lessons ¿Equip yourself to lead a Bible study ¿Imagine the Bible's historical world ¿Study word origins and definitions ¿Explore thoughtful questions on key themes ¿Go deeper with optional projects ¿Add your notes with extra space and wide margins ¿Find the flexibility to fit the time you have

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I CORINTHIANS. To a proud and prosperous church, the Apostle Paul writes a stern reminder: take your eyes off impressive externals, and practice purity, humility, and love. His practical instructions concerning factions, sexuality, spiritual gifts, and worship remain profoundly relevant for believers pursuing genuine spiritual maturity. LifeChange Series: Christians have a lifelong goal: to become like Christ. This involves change, and change isn’t always easy. But the more you know of God’s purposes for you, the more you can experience His joy and participate in His plan. The LifeChange Series of Bible studies on books of the Bible can help you grow in Christlikeness through a life-changing encounter with God’s Word. You’ll benefit in these important ways: 1) You’ll gain a firm understanding of the book-its historical context, purpose, structure, and meaning; 2) You’ll apply its powerful, relevant wisdom to needs and issues you are currently working through; and 3) You’ll acquire personal study skills and a thirst to return to the book on your own-so you can keep going deeper into its life-transforming truths

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1 Corinthians

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Contents

How to Use This Study, 5, 
One — Paul and Corinth (Overview), 9, 
Map for 1 Corinthians, 9, 
Timeline of Paul's Ministry, 11, 
Two — To the Called (1:1-9), 21, 
Three — Foolishness (1:10–2:5), 31, 
Four — True Wisdom (2:6-16), 39, 
Five — Fleshly and Spiritual Attitudes (3:1-23), 47, 
Six — Apostles of Christ (4:1-21), 55, 
Seven — Dealing with Immorality (5:1-13), 63, 
Eight — More Moral Laxity (6:1-20), 71, 
Nine — Marriage (7:1-40), 79, 
Ten — Freedom and Rights (8:1–9:27), 87, 
Eleven — Freedom and Temptation (10:1–11:1), 97, 
Twelve — Propriety in Worship (11:2-34), 109, 
Thirteen — Gifts of the Spirit: 1 (12:1-31), 119, 
Fourteen — Gifts of the Spirit: 2 (13:1–14:40), 129, 
Fifteen — Resurrection: 1 (15:1-34), 139, 
Sixteen — Resurrection: 2 (15:35-58), 147, 
Seventeen — Personal Words (16:1-24 and Review), 155, 
Study Aids, 165, 

CHAPTER 1

Lesson One

OVERVIEW

Paul and Corinth

Founding the church in Corinth had been no easy matter for Paul, and maintaining it was proving to be just as challenging. He had planted the faith in the pagan soil of a bustling port city, and weeds persistently threatened to choke it. From Paul's correspondence with the Corinthian believers, we see how he applied the gospel to a host of issues, including sex, intellectualism, public worship, and gifts of the Spirit.

Saul the Pharisee

Some knowledge of Paul's background helps us understand his views on the issues being debated in Corinth. He was born in the first decade AD in Tarsus, a prosperous city on the trade route from Syria to Asia Minor. Tarsus was known for its schools of philosophy and liberal arts, and some scholars believe that Paul must have had some contact with these. Like most cities in the Roman Empire, Tarsus probably contained synagogues of Greek-speaking Jews who were often as devout as their Hebrew-speaking brethren.

However, Paul called himself "a Hebrew of Hebrews" (Philippians 3:5), which probably means that his parents spoke Hebrew and raised him in a strict Jewish home, isolated as much as possible from the pagan city around them. They named their boy "Saul" after Israel's first king, the most glorious member of the tribe of Benjamin, to which Saul's parents traced their ancestry (see Philippians 3:5). It was a rare Jew outside Palestine who could trace a pure lineage back to the ancient days of Israel, and fellow Jews would have envied the pedigree. Furthermore, Saul's family must have owned property and had some importance in the Gentile community as well, for Saul was born not only a citizen of Tarsus (see Acts 21:39) but also of Rome (see Acts 22:27-28).

Saul's parents had such aspirations that they sent their son to study Jewish Law in Jerusalem under the foremost rabbi of the day, the Pharisee Gamaliel (see Acts 22:3; Galatians 1:14). With Gamaliel, Saul learned a little about Greek rhetoric and oratory, and a lot about Jewish reasoning, arguing, and the Law. The Pharisees (the Hebrew word means "the separated ones") felt that God had set them apart to live by the Torah (the Law or Teaching of Moses). For them, this meant following the interpretations of the Torah laid down by generations of teachers. Some Pharisees held that a man was righteous if he had done more good than bad, but Saul apparently followed the stricter group who insisted that even the least implications of the Law must be kept.

The Pharisees expected a Messiah (Hebrew for "Anointed One"; Greek: Christ) who would deliver them from oppression and rule with justice. However, Jesus of Nazareth had infuriated many Pharisees by interpreting the Torah differently and claiming a special relationship with God. Thus, when some Jews began to proclaim Jesus as Messiah and Lord (Lord was a term usually reserved for God), strict Pharisees opposed them vehemently.

Saul helped lead the fight against the proclaimers of Jesus Christ in Jerusalem (see Acts 7:58–8:3; Galatians 1:13). When some followers of Christ were driven out, Saul obtained permission to pursue them to Damascus. But on the way there, Jesus confronted Saul in a blinding encounter (see Acts 9:1-19), revealing to Saul that he was persecuting the very God he professed to worship. From then on, Saul's understanding of God and the Torah began to change dramatically. He joined those Jews who were urging other Jews to believe in Jesus, and after some years God called him to proclaim Jesus as Savior to the Gentiles also. Saul took the Greek name "Paul" when he turned to work among Gentiles.

Paul the missionary

Paul spent ten years in the Roman provinces of Cilicia and Syria (see Galatians 1:21), probably preaching Jesus along with Greek-speaking Jewish Christians. Then a believer named Barnabas called him to Syrian Antioch, where by this time rapid conversions had made the church more Gentile than Jewish. After a while, the church in Antioch commissioned Paul and Barnabas to evangelize the provinces of Cyprus and Galatia. The two men succeeded in founding churches in several cities. Indeed, the mission to the Gentiles was so successful that the apostles in Jerusalem invited Paul and Barnabas to a council to clarify exactly what God expected of Gentile believers (see Acts 15). Paul spent the eight years after the council in Jerusalem planting more churches. He went first to Macedonia, where he founded churches in Philippi, Thessalonica, and Berea (see Acts 16:1–17:15). Trouble from the Jews in Macedonia drove him south to Greece. He received a cold reception in Athens, so he traveled on to Corinth, the capital of the Roman province of Achaia (modern Greece).

Paul and his mission team spent a year and a half in Corinth to found a church firmly in that important city (see Acts 18:1-18). When things looked solid in Corinth, Paul sailed back east to Antioch and Jerusalem, then traveled west again to plant a church in Ephesus, the capital of the province of Asia (part of modern Turkey). Meanwhile, the church at Corinth received a great blessing in the person of another stellar Christian leader. A former Jew named Apollos arrived to teach the faith and debate Corinthian Jews who opposed Christianity (see Acts 18:24-28).

Toward the end of his three-year stay in Ephesus, Paul began to receive disturbing news from Corinth. He wrote a letter (now lost) instructing the Corinthian believers not to associate with church members who practiced illicit sex (see 1 Corinthians 5:9). Sometime later, members of the household of a believer named Chloe brought news that the Corinthian church was splitting into factions, each of which claimed some prominent leader as its authority (see 1 Corinthians 1:11). Then three members of the church brought Paul a letter from the whole body (see 1 Corinthians 7:1; 16:17). This letter was full of questions about various issues, but the messengers also reported scandalous information: incest, class snobbery, and other problems were infecting the church. In response to these ills, Paul dictated a long letter — the one we call 1 Corinthians.

Corinth

Paul spent more time in Corinth and Ephesus than in any other city he visited (besides Rome and Caesarea, where he was imprisoned), for as two of the...

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• Verlag: Tyndale House Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0891095594
• ISBN 13: 9780891095590
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 170
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