Pauline Epistles

I really enjoyed reading 1 Corinthians, it was nice to see what “the church of God that is in Corinth” was like back then and the flaws within the church. One of the main things Paul criticizes the church on is factionalism within the church Paul devotes almost four chapters to this topic just to really show its importance. Paul has heard that the Corinthian church has divided itself according to the various preachers of the Gospel: “each of you says, ‘I belong to Paul,’ or ‘I belong to Apollos,’ or ‘I belong to Cephas,’ or ‘I belong to Christ’” (1:12). But Paul really stresses hat each preacher of the Gospel is merely a servant of Jesus, and that all believers should be united in Jesus. The faithful should put aside their differences and remember that “[a]ll things are yours. . . . You belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God” (3:23). The place of the preachers is not to establish themselves as leaders among men; instead, “people should think of us as servants of Christ” (4:1). I completely agree with this and agree with Paul that is how it should be and still today this is sometimes how it is in the church. I feel like especially in the Catholic church they have levels of preachers I guess you could say, I’m not sure what word to use, there is the pope, preachers, bishop, archbishop and many more.