Gluten Free & God Seeking: What Can Solve All the Problems Among the Believers in 1 Corinthians?

Sunday, February 3, 2013

What Can Solve All the Problems Among the Believers in 1 Corinthians?

Does the book of 1 Corinthians seem complicated to you? It may look like it's just Paul hashing through a number of problems the believers were having in the church in Corinth.

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Well I really appreciate the insight Witness Lee shares in his Life-Study of this book because without it that's probably all I'd see.

This is actually my third time reading through the Life-Studies of 1 Corinthians, and what makes this book special for me is that it was my starting point in 1986 for reading through the New Testament Life-Studies.

I like this excerpt on pages 35-36 in chapter 4 because it puts together why Christ should be the unique focus of all the believers:

In the first nine verses Paul lays as the foundation Christ, the unique center. In this unique center we have a unique and all-inclusive fellowship and enjoyment, the fellowship of Christ. In 1:10 Paul begins to deal with the eleven problems found in 1 Corinthians. In dealing with all these problems, Paul makes it very clear that the unique solution to all problems in the church is Christ and His cross (Lee, Witness. Life-Study of 1 Corinthians. Anaheim: Living Stream Ministry, 1981, Print).

I noticed in my reading that brother Lee kept underscoring how Paul in the midst of all these negative situations kept focusing the believers on Christ. In fact in chapter 5 of the Life-Study of 1 Corinthians he lists 19 aspects of the all-inclusive Christ that Paul reveals in this epistle!

Here's a link so you can listen to any of the programs on the Life-Study of the Bible with Witness Lee that are on the book of 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians.