This year we are studying I & II Corinthians.
We are meeting Tuesday, September 13th at 7:15 at The Point. It will be a time of fellowship and connecting. Also, we will be looking at the ancient city of Corinth.
Marylin Blair has agreed to join us and help me with facilitating. She was in the After Hours group in the past, so many of you already know her. For those of you who don't know Marylin, you are in for a treat. She will be posting some information about Corinth to help us with our discussion.
At the bottom of the blog page there is a YouTube link. It is an amazing clip which will inspire you. I encourage you to watch it.
Looking forward to seeing you.
Kathy Lauderdale
CITY OF CORINTH
ReplyDeleteAccording to David Padfield in "The Biblical City of Corinth", when Paul visited Corinth in 50 AD, it was the most beautiful, modern, and industrious city of it's size in Greece. Corinth is located in southern Greece about 50 miles from Athens. It controlled two major harbors and thus commanded trade routes between Asia and Rome. Captured, destroyed and rebuilt by the Romans, Corinth at one time housed 200,000 free men and 600,000 slaves. In Corinth, you could find the cults of gods of Egypt, Rome, and Greece.
Corinth housed a small synagogue where Jew were allowed to worship, but not allowed to make proselytes among Roman citizens.
There were also numerous temples of popular gods, including an enormous temples of Aphrodite, goddess of "love", as well as Poseidon, and Apollo There were also beautiful fountains, a large market place, and an amphitheater that seated 14,000.
Corinth had a reputation for commercial prosperity, but also for evil living. To live like a Corinthian, had become synonymous with gross immorality.
Paul stayed about 18 months in Corinth to teach and strengthen the fledgling church.
In the New Living Translation introduction to First Corinthians, Gordon Fee comments " Paul's Corinth was at once the New York, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas of the ancient world ... the church was in many ways a mirror of the city".
See you Tuesday night.
Marylin
"(First Corinthians is) an inexhaustible mine of Christian thought and life. Nowhere else in the NT is there a more many-sided embodiment of the imperishable principles and instincts which should inspire each member of the body of Christ for all time."
ReplyDeleteA. Robertson, A Dictionary of the Bible; pp 489-90
Ladies, please, take 5 minutes and go to www.crazylove.com
ReplyDeleteThere are several videos to choose from. Click on video titled:
"The Heavens Declare the Glory of God"
This video starts with the first part of our Memory verse from 1st Corinthians, and contains 117,546 views of the universe God created -- most people through the years have never seen them. The pictures are part of more than 350 trillion galaxies that God created (courtesy Hubble telescope).
How big is your God? I AM AWED!
I just took a look at the video, and it was
ReplyDeletemagnificent! To think of our God on that scale
certainly gives one perspective. Talk about
humbling! And I angst over life circumstances why?!
Janet Brown
9.27.11; 9:54 p.m.
From today's "Gilrfriends in God" website:
ReplyDeleteI choose:
.. faith over doubt
.. to believe God's word over wisdom or logic
.. to stand firm & trust God when the storms of life come
.. to count on God's holiness & perfect plan for my life instead of my own effort