This new pulpit series will focus on Paul's letter to the house churches in the city of Corinth, the letter we call 1 Corinthians. It is a deeply personal letter written to persons Paul cared deeply about, but it's also a painful letter to read. As Eugene Peterson puts it, ‘When people become Christians they don't necessarily become nice.' That was certainly true of the Corinthians! They weren't ‘nice' to Paul or ‘nice' to one another. The church was marked by division, sexual immorality, drunkenness, power struggles and lawsuits, to mention a few problems. This reminds us that good manners and good morals don't necessarily follow once we decide to follow Christ. But 1 Corinthians shows us what it means to genuinely care for people through their problems, as well as, show us how to avoid the problems in the first place. Welcome to Corinth!