6/10/2021 0 Comments 1Corinthians CommentaryIt is AD 55.
Paul is on his third missionary journey, and has been staying at Ephesus for nearly three years in order to come alongside Prisca and Aquila -- the first two evangelists in the region -- to firmly plant a strong church body there [Ac 18:19; 19:10; 20:31]. Then comes a report from the church of Corinth, the original sin city of the Gentile world, which deeply troubles Paul [1Co 1:11]. The church, rather than being a church and exposing and rebuking the godless culture around them, has allowed its many vices to seep into its life, sullying their evangelistic witness for the Lord and stumping their spiritual growth. The church has fallen into chasing after their own self-fulfillment and prideful self-identity rather than remembering what their true purpose on earth, as followers of Christ, is. Unbelievers were comfortably masquerading themselves as true members of the church with impunity, and they were introducing confusion and chaos; they were counterfeiting the spiritual gifts of tongue and prophecy, and were spewing the popular Gnostic heresies that strike at the message of the gospel.
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6/2/2021 0 Comments Romans CommentaryPaul writes this letter from Corinth during the near end of his third missionary journey (ca. AD 56), and entrusts the delivery to Phoebe while he travels back to Jerusalem with relief funds for the poor believers.
Rome, the capital city of the Roman Empire, founded in 753 BC, is home to over one million people, a large portion of whom were slaves. It boasts of some of the most magnificent human architecture, but is abutted by ghettos in which most lived. 5/30/2021 0 Comments Acts CommentaryLuke, a Gentile man of many hats (historian, physician, travelling missionary), write a second letter to a powerful political figure. It is dated AD 60-62, before the end of Paul's first Roman imprisonment.
4/7/2021 0 Comments Mark CommentaryMark, the cousin of Barnabas, a student of Peter, writes down the memoirs of his teacher for Gentile audience in Rome.
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