Paul and the Corinthian Church (2 Corinthians 8:1-12)
To see the full message, scroll to the bottom. The church in Corinth , originally founded by Paul himself, was struggling. It was about 2 0 years after Jesus had died , and risen , and then gone away promising to return that Paul arrived in Corinth for the first time , around the year 50. In those years , the Church had blown up, and I 'm not talking about just the Corinth ian church. The big “C,” everybody Church . W e s tarted in J erusalem and spread in to the R oman E mpire and the known world , along the R oman roads. S ometimes that expansion was driven from behind , by persecution. By hostility . By even hatred . By people who were trying to silence this new religion , and did not want it to continue. So the Christ ians had to go somewhere else. Sometimes that expansion was driven from in front, whe n people like Paul and Peter and other Apostle s looked out and said , “ T here are cities out there where ...