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The first letter to a congregation of Christians in the New Testament is probably the book of Romans. It is mostly an overview of major tenets of the Christian faith laid out by the Apostle Paul.
The second epistle of First Corinthians could be considered God's example to us of the typical practical problems of a typical local church. The letter deals with a number of problems. Christians could consider them [i]representative[/b] of the typical problems of a pretty typical Christian church founded by the early apostles.
I like to call First Corinthians subtitle as "Welcome to the typical New Testament church"
I will discuss SOME of the problems in Corinth which are very significant.
I do not care about complaints about authorship.
All those scrambling around to claim Paul did not write the Corinthian letter I will ignore.
So Welcome to the Typical New Testament Church. She certainly is no utopia. Yet she is still wonderful because Christ is there and Christ is the solution to all the varied problems candidly recorded under God's sovereignty for generations to read in the New Testament.
The second epistle of First Corinthians could be considered God's example to us of the typical practical problems of a typical local church. The letter deals with a number of problems. Christians could consider them [i]representative[/b] of the typical problems of a pretty typical Christian church founded by the early apostles.
I like to call First Corinthians subtitle as "Welcome to the typical New Testament church"
I will discuss SOME of the problems in Corinth which are very significant.
I do not care about complaints about authorship.
All those scrambling around to claim Paul did not write the Corinthian letter I will ignore.
So Welcome to the Typical New Testament Church. She certainly is no utopia. Yet she is still wonderful because Christ is there and Christ is the solution to all the varied problems candidly recorded under God's sovereignty for generations to read in the New Testament.