I Corinthians Overview

(Originally written January 18, 2006)

I Corinthians Overview

I Corinthians: Christian Hot Potatoes

Natural Person
Spiritual Person (2:15)
Carnal Person (3:1) Carnal Christian

Is there salvation after death? (I Corinthians 5:5)

I Corinthians 6: Lawsuits

Marriage & Singleness

Outline

1:1-9 Introduction
1:10-4:21 Division in the Church
5:1-6:20 Disorders in the Church
- Discipline
- Lawsuits
- Fornication
7:1-15 Difficulties in the Church
- marriage and singleness
- liberty
- worship
- spiritual gifts
- resurrection
7:16 Directions to the Church

Divisions in the Church
- Doctrinal lines
- Intellectual lines
- Socioeconomic lines
- Disciplines of study and research

3 Groups of people in the Church today:
1) 2:14 Natural Man
-Person without God's spirit living in their life.
-Doesn't welcome things of God's spirit
-God's spirit things are foolishness to the natural man
-Can't experientially know God's spirit
2) 2:15 Spiritual Man (Christian)
3) 3:1-2a Carnal Infant (The worldly baby Christian)
4) Worldly/Carnal willful Christians