As you can read at the top of the sidebar, Paul is writing to a faith community beset with divisions and rivalries. These words of reproof and admonition are meant to call the Corinthians to task and to make them see how their factions fraction the unity of Christ's body, the Church.
This would not have been a easy letter for the people of Corinth to read. Nor is it an epistle without implications for our own times. In these troubled and troubling times in the life of the Church, to whom do we offer our allegiance? Do divisions in theology and church polity divide us into camps of mistrust and anger? Do we find in justifiable anger license for unjustifiable enmity and scorn? How does the unity of Christ's body call us to heal the divisions and to work towards unity in word and deed?
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