Our readings in this series are from the book, The Church Captive. Here is a brief excerpt from page 8:
“The Corinthians’ problem was that they loved a wrong vision of the life of faith and the Church. They were content with smallness, the status quo, a turf to call their own, and a faith that was merely good enough to satisfy their own needs. Their affections were strong, but misplaced. And they had become captive to them.
“But this was not because Paul had not properly taught and challenged them during those eighteen months he worked among them. It was because they had set their hearts on a false view of the faith and the Church. They were hemmed in by their own misplaced affections, and Paul knew they would not break out of these binding restraints unless he confronted them unsparingly, even to the point of challenging the genuineness of their faith.”
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