This is a passage that lays out Paul’s approach to gospel ministry. It teaches his approach to evangelism, and he sees God doing the work of evangelism in a significant way through the preaching of the Word. Paul uses four different, very colourful illustrations to help us understand that. Paul describes an open door, an aroma of life, an aroma […]

As Paul deals with the Corinthians, the foundations for forgiveness come through loud and clear. The first foundation for the restoration of those who repent is that Jesus Christ has forgiven you. Paul begins his letter confessing his own trials and his own weaknesses. We see in Paul a humility, a boldness but a humility, to confront the Corinthians from […]

In this passage, Paul teaches and demonstrates that discipline exercised in love also includes forgiveness and restoration of the offender when they repent. In verse 5, Paul says that their offense, or the man’s offense, had not just been against him. Paul was indignant for the cause of Christ and for his namesake. But the offense had caused difficulty especially […]