1. Church Planter & Overseer
The Pauline Epistles
Church Planter & Overseer
© John Stevenson, 2010

2. Church planter & overseer
Course Outline
Week One
Week Two
Week Three
Week Four
Week Five
Early years
Church planter & overseer
Paul’s Gospel
Paul the Theologian
Paul the Bishop
Birth to Greece
Corinth
Epistle to the Romans
The Prison Epistles
The Pastoral Epistles

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Corinth

7. Corinth A smelting pot of many peoples. Pagan cults. Immorality.
Church plagued by division.
Divorce
Trend to glorify the scientific and philosophical and to ridicule the spiritual.

8. Corinth The role of men and women in the church.
Questions of the uses and misuses of the spiritual gifts.

9. 1 Corinthians 1:10-11
Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree, and there be no divisions among you, but you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment.
11 For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by Chloe’s people, that there are quarrels among you.

10. Unity First Corinthians Chapters 1-6 Chapters 7-10 Chapters 11-16
Divisions
Need for Unity
Necessary Divisions

11. Sexual misconduct that calls for church discipline
1 Corinthians 5-6
5:1-13
Sexual misconduct that calls for church discipline
Unity broken by sin
6:1-11
Legal lawsuits that call for church oversight
Unity threatened by disagreement
6:12-20
Lustful temptations that call for a connective reminder
Unity shared in Christ

12. Unity Questions First Corinthians Chapters 1-6 Chapters 7-10
Divisions
Need for Unity
Necessary Divisions
Single & Married
Meat & Idols

13. Those who felt it was wrong to eat
Christians in Corinth
Those who felt it was wrong to eat
Those who felt it was okay to eat
They did not eat, but were troubled by those who did
They ate in spite of thinking it was wrong and their conscience was troubled
They ate without regard to the feelings of others
They limited their liberty from concern for other brothers

14. 1 Corinthians 8-9
8:1
9:1
9:15
A call to limit liberty for the sake of the weaker brother
An example of this type of limited liberty seen in Paul’s limitation of his liberty to be paid in the ministry
Paul has the right to be paid in ministry
Paul has limited his liberty for the sake of the Corinthians

15. 1 Corinthians 9:24-25
24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
25 And everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

16. 1 Corinthians 9:26-27
26 Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; 27 but I buffet my body and make it my slave, lest possibly, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

17. For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were… (10:1)
All under the cloud
All passed through the sea
All were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea
All ate the same spiritual food
All drank the same spiritual drink
Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness (10:5).

18. 1 Corinthians 10:11-12
11 Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

19. 1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, that you may be able to endure it.

20. Unity Questions Errors First Corinthians Chapters 1-6 Chapters 7-10
Divisions
Need for Unity
Necessary Divisions
Single & Married
Meat & Idols
Women & Worship
Lord’s Supper
Gifts
Resurrection

21. Universal versus Local Application
What sort of applications should be made to the teachings found in 1 Corinthians 11:4-6?

22. 1 Corinthians 12-14 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14
There are many different gifts, but each are no less a part of the body
Having and exhibiting various gifts is not nearly so important as having love
The use of tongues in the church; it is better to do that which edifies others

23. 1 Corinthians 15 The Resurrection Christ rose from the dead
We will also rise from the dead
15:35
15:36
15:45
15:50
Two Questions
Three answers: The resurrection body is…
How raised? What body?
Illustrated in nature
Necessary from Old Testament
Experienced at the Second Coming