"Paul is convinced that freedom, not from our desires or arousal patterns or longings necessarily but from their domination over us, is an inheritance of all who follow Jesus."

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"The competitiveness of the Corinthian communities whether it be in terms of pedigree, or persuasiveness, or tolerance, or, as in this passage, justice is inconsistent with the kind of beings God is calling us in Jesus to become."

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"We must never give those who wish to follow Jesus the misimpression that we find who we are most truly in our desires or in our histories or in our natures."

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"The message of God delivered by the prophets of Israel and the apostles of Jesus is the starting place for Christian wisdom."

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Because the revelation of God in Jesus takes us outside of the material, and beyond the grasp of human reason, what Jesus reveals cannot be ascertained by material investigation or by philosophical speculation.

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The anointing of God on a community comes not in the persuasiveness of its professors, but in its growing semblance to the likeness of Jesus Christ.

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How will we know who is building well and who is building poorly? Paul seems to insist that the Holy Spirit will reveal the quality of the workmanship over time.

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The contemporary world is defined by a systemic belief that humanity has achieved what we have achieved on our own.

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What defines Christianity? For the first generation it is loyalty to the God who they have personally encountered. For the second generation, it is loyalty to this same God in submission to what He entrusted to the first generation.

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The world needs the light that we bear, and most of the spiritually diseased in the world aren’t going to come here willingly.  We need to go to them—to go where they are.

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