Lawsuits in the Church?
Taken from Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians
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Lawsuits in the Church?
1 Corinthians 6.1-8
The business was just getting going when one of the customers noticed a strange thing. He had begun bringing his car to this particular garage a few months ago, and had believed that it was doing a good job. People in the community seemed to respect the company, and it appeared to be flourishing. The boss seemed to be in charge; the employees were helpful and efficient.
But then one day this particular customer was in a different part of the town, and he spotted something odd. There, in quite a different garage, was one of the mechanics from the first one. He had brought his own car, not to the garage where he worked, but to a different outfit. And the person he was taking it to wasn’t a qualified mechanic at all. In fact, he’d had no training with cars. The customer was anxious. If this mechanic didn’t trust his own colleagues to look after his car, why should he do so? What’s more, if this man was letting an unqualified operator do the job, it looked as though he didn’t know, or didn’t care about, the kind of skill required...
Taken from Paul 1 Corinthians for Everyone – by Tom Wright