‌The city of Corinth was a key seaport city in the Roman Empire’s trade route. Like many other wealthy crossroads cities, it had a reputation for sexual immorality, religious diversity and corruption. A lot like our culture today. As we read this letter to another group of Christians in another church from another century, let’s watch for principles or teachings that apply to our church community here in Dunkirk.

‌We will see three methods of evaluation in this passage. Listen for them. A common evaluation, the desired evaluation, and finally an alternative out-of-the-box kind of evaluation.

‌Scripture tells us God will be the judge of our work done as a believer and He will reward what is done with pure heart and pure motive. We should make sure we are serving humbly and faithfully and not worry so much about others.