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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

September 5, 2012 – 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 – On Divisions in the Corinthian Church


And so, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but rather as people of the flesh as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now you are still not ready, for you are still of the flesh. For as long as there is jealousy and quarrelling among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving according to human inclinations? For when one says, I belong to Paul, and another I belong to Apollos, are you not mere human? What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe as the Lord assigned to each. I planted Apollo’s water but God gave the growth so neither the one who so plants nor the one who waters is anything but only God who gives the growth. The one who plants and the one who waters have a common purpose, and each will receive wages according to the labour of each. For we are God’s servants, working together;  you are God’s field, God’s building.

Father Michael Coutts cited about the TV advisory “Viewers' discretion is advised” to let the viewing public know the presence of violence and coarse language in  TV shows. In the public ministry of Jesus in Galilee, a village of Nazareth, there were  hatred, anger and jealousy ,working side by side. St. Paul taught his followers to do something good and put value on earthly things. Paul and Apollo’s theme is to comfort the afflicted and the uncomfortable; to reach out and heal them; caught up with the message rather than the messager and the message is Jesus Christ.

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