I’ve been asked to speak at a men’s breakfast tomorrow morning (Beeston Free Church), applying my research on 1 Corinthians to the topic of “Men and Weakness”. Here are my notes:
Roman Corinth
- British Hong Kong, Portuguese Macau, and Roman Corinth
- Factories in Guang Zhou and Empire in Corinth: the desire to fit in
- Roman values: Liberty, Power, Oratory, Wealth, Prestige
The flow of 1 Corinthians
- Chapters 1-4: The cross confronts Roman Corinth
- Chapters 5-7: The cross applied I: Your body belongs to the Lord
- Sexual Immorality, impurity, greed
- Chapters 8-14: The cross applied II: Discern the body
- Food and idols
- Traditions in worship
- Spiritual gifts and love
- Chapter 15: The need for future resurrection
The message of 1 Corinthians
- Those in Corinth who consider the foolish (4:10), the defrauded (6:7-8), the obligated (7:5), the weak (8:7), the enslaved (9:19), the restricted (10:23), the subject (11:3), the unimpressive (12:15), the restrained (14:28), and the dead (15:12) – that is, the cruciform – to have no portion with God have fundamentally misunderstood the God who raises the dead.
Beeston
- The desire to fit in: Wealth & Power
- The cross confronts Upward Beeston
- “We are weak but he is strong”
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