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Paul is in a deep discussion with the people of Corinth.

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“Paul is in a deep discussion with the people of Corinth. There is trouble and Paul is far away from them and the only way he can reasonably communicate with the people in the Church is by letter – the one we have just begun.

It is not going to surprise you that the Corinthians have been without strong leadership and they have allowed their old lives – lives before Christ – to have sway again. They have returned to the ways of the world where individualism has wrecked the community they once shared with each other…” — Listen here, or download the MP3!

How to Be a Community of New Creation

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"This is the last time we will be in Paul’s letter to the Galatians for a while and he does not disappoint in this final volley to a church in trouble. Paul is reducing the several themes of this letter to a very ‘thick syrup’ of what it means to be a Community in Christ – that New Creation he speaks of so often. How does he do this?" — Listen here, or download the MP3!

Checks and Balances in the Christian Life

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"Well, the last few Sundays we have been moving through Paul’s letter to the Galatian churches, and we continue today in that letter. Joyfully, we come to the portion to which the writer has been leading us toward. There are many, many rich passages and phrases in this particular portion of scripture that we have heard today, but especially this one where Paul writes to the Galatians, ‘Live by the Spirit, but do not gratify the desires of the flesh, for the Spirit and the flesh are opposed to each other to prevent you from doing what you want…’" — Listen here, or download the MP3!