1 Corinthians
This letter from the apostle Paul was written to a church which clearly had problems. The divisions among people meant that their lives, standards, goals and dreams were diverging. It was not just hard for them to get on with each other, but for anyone to see God at work through them.
However, Paul brought good news that God could fix this and would, in fact, use this church to demonstrate the all-important power of God’s love.
This letter must have been a painful rebuke for the church, but it contains some of the most empowering, memorable and widely quoted descriptions of love, healthy life with God and the spiritual gifts God provides to heal and work through bodies of people.