A Church Divided: 1 Corinthians 1:1-17

Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, to the church of God in Corinth.

The news from Corinth had been troubling. Chloe's people had brought the report to Paul in Ephesus. The church he had founded, the church he had spent eighteen months building, was fracturing.

To those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—their Lord and ours.

Sanctified. Called. Holy people. The titles were true. But the behavior was contradicting the identity.