Today we’re beginning something new. I’ve been working on this class on 1 Corinthians for months and months. I had taken classes on 1 Corinthians at Boston University twice. The first time we just read through the entire epistle in Greek. The second time was when we learned about what modern scholars said about Corinth. I’ve taught this epistle in the past both in a home bible study (in Rhode Island) and at the college level (in Georgia). Then, last April I had the opportunity to visit many ancient cities in both Turkey and Greece, including Corinth, which gave me first-hand knowledge and experience with the site and the museum. Then we hiked up the Acrocorinth to get a good view of the ocean and the ancient site. From all of this I’ve put together a class on 1 Corinthians that I hope will make the Bible come alive for you in a new and exciting way.
Now, when most people pick up their Bibles and read 1 Corinthians, they approach it as if this was a modern document addressing our concerns today. Of course, there is a lot in 1 Corinthians that directly applies to us today, but there’s also a huge potential for misunderstanding when we read today’s issues and categories into Scripture. A better approach, and the approach I’ll be taking in this class, is to do the hard work of adjusting our minds to think like they thought in their time and place. When we do that we can see through their eyes and this will tremendously help us to understand what Paul was doing in the epistle he wrote them. Today is an introduction to the city of Corinth to help you start getting your bearings. Then next week we’ll look at what happened when Paul came there.
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