Richard Hays offers the following six reflections from 1 Corinthians 1:18–2:5 for preachers and teachers.
1. Paul’s message focuses on the cross.
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2. Paul’s message confronts human boasting.
3. The meaning of “wisdom” is controlled by “Christ crucified.”
4. The word of the cross creates a countercultural world for those who are called.
5. The social composition of the church should be a sign of God’s election of the foolish, the weak, the low and despised.
6. The Old Testament texts in 1 Corinthians 1:19 and 1:31 are heard as God’s word addressed directly to the Christian community.
Richard B. Hays, First Corinthians, Interpretation (Louisville, KY: John Knox, 1997), 37–39.
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