Research and discussion
1. Compare conditions in Corinth in the time of
Paul with condition in any modern city you know, and comment on whether you
think it is more difficult to be a Christian in that city today than it was for
the Corinthians.
2. What do you think about the fact that there
are very many different Churches (denominations) today? Does the teaching of
Paul first four chapters of the letter say anything to the modern situation?
3. Explain what this means to a modern
Christian: 'I could say am allowed to do anything, but I am not going to let
anything me its slave.'
4. Explain why Paul told the Corinthians that
he could not talk to as people who have the Spirit. What warnings are there to
a m Church in the situation about which Paul was writing?
5. Comment on this imaginary situation in a
modem Church with reference to teaching from 1 Corinthians:
A
church pastor borrowed Shs. 9,000 from the Church b fund, without permission,
to pay off the price of a piece of which he was buying for himself. He intended
to pay it back he had harvested the crops from his land in the following year
before he could do this, the Church authorities found out w had done and
suspended him from his work. The pastor too matter of his suspension to a law
court and the judge ruled the Church authorities must reinstate him because he
had com no crime against the law.
6. Summarize Paul's understanding of the task
and responsibility apostle. Does this have any application to the task of the
Church today?
7. Outline a Christian understanding of sex,
beginning from the following passages: Genesis
1:26-28, Genesis 2:18-25, Mark 10:1-12.
8. What do you know about Church discipline in
any specific Church? Is it carried out effectively?
9. Many young Christians today, who want to be
married in Church are puzzled about acceptable behaviour during the period of
courtship. What advice might a married Christian give them?