Today we continue to read about Paul and the Jewish leader’s false accusations to the Roman authorities. While they could not prove any wrongdoing, they were able to create lots of distraction around the truth. This is an example of how the truth gets distorted today. While the truth around the gospel cannot be disproved, distractions around different beliefs and individual sins tend to take us away from what really matters; that God loves us and there is nothing more we can do to deserve His forgiveness than what Christ has already done for us on the cross.

Today we begin book of 1 Corinthians, which was the first letter to the church in Corinth. Paul writes this letter to identify problems in the Corinthian church and to ultimately offer them solutions. It sounds like the church is beginning to lose sight of why it exists in the first place and Paul takes a moment in the first chapter, 13th verse to say, “Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized in the name of Paul? ” Paul did not want anyone to forget Christ was the reason for their salvation and that every believer was baptized in Christ’s name. We also have a tendency to forget why we do the things we do as believers. Do we go to church to hear a great speaker or great musicians? Or do we go to hear God’s word proclaimed in truth? When it comes to church, we should probably be more concerned with “what” is being said and done, and less concerned with“how”.