Just Because You're in the Garage…

The problems of the Corinthian church were obviously very serious, Paul had just finished addressing the scandal caused by the decision of a group of the women in the church to oppose the biblical pattern of headship and assert an unbiblical egalitarianism by removing the veils, or peplum, with which respectable Greek women covered their heads in public. Paul moves now from that contention to an even more serious one, the Corinthian's abuse of the Lord's Supper. And here he is going to discuss that situation in the gravest of terms, openly rebuking them.

These contentions served to expose the fact that not all the members of the church at Corinth were actually regenerate, we learn once again that the old saying 'Just because you are in the garage doesn't make you a car' was just as true then as it is now.

As David Jackman put it: 'every congregation will be made up of genuine believers and superficial adherents, true disciples who follow in Christ's footsteps, and externalists who come along merely for the ride.'