Some were bringing charges against Paul or questioning his authority. Paul says, do I need to recommend myself again? Do I need to have a letter of recommendation from some other church? Paul asks it almost incredulously to the Corinthians. And why is that? That’s because the Corinthian church knew and experienced the work of Paul. Paul wasn’t putting himself […]

Paul says that he didn’t peddle the word. Calvin uses the word huckster. You may have heard that word before to describe somebody who is a sneaky salesman and who dresses up his product to disguise what he really has to sell. He deceives his customers so that they don’t know exactly what they’re getting. Paul says that because it’s […]

This is a passage that lays out Paul’s approach to gospel ministry. It teaches his approach to evangelism, and he sees God doing the work of evangelism in a significant way through the preaching of the Word. Paul uses four different, very colourful illustrations to help us understand that. Paul describes an open door, an aroma of life, an aroma […]