I Corinthians 2 - Overview Summary (Leadership)

Then and Now: In the main content of this letter, Paul mixes in the readers personal faith and service in the church with discussions of the work and service of church leaders because every believer is expected to be a leader of some kind. Church members lead their friends, their families, their fellow group members before having opportunity to be selected as teachers, speakers, deacons, elders, ministers or missionaries. Everyone within the chuch leads in one fashion or another. These chapters cannot be skipped. Read them at both levels. Commentators help us think. Magness and Wright bring out Paul's leadership points for verses 2:1 to 4:21.