True Spirituality

True Spirituality

This is a study of Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians – a congregation that the author feels is very similar to the Western Church of today, weakened by insidious inroads of worldly thinking and attitudes. Vaughan Roberts points to the factionism between followers of prominent Christian teachers, the falling into secular ideas of success and sophistication and, worst of all, the dilution of the gospel to make it more palatable to a consumer society. He advocates a return to the central focus being on Jesus Christ and Him crucified, however unpopular that might prove. We are called, he says, to be faithful; ‘success’ – like salvation – belongs to our God. This is not a verse-by-verse exposition; the author draws on the main themes of 1Corinthians and discusses first how they applied to their original recipients and then how they apply to us today. He ends with a timely warning not to read the book with a spirit of smugness, thinking ‘this is just what those other churches need to hear!’ thus falling straight back into the faction trap. True Spirituality is a call for unity under the common banner of the risen Christ as much as it is a call to holiness.

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