Forging Ploughshares

Paul Axton Preaches: Paul is teaching the Corinthians of an alternative knowing - a self-awareness that must include a sensitivity to persons. It is not simply a matter of knowing a set of facts – idols are nothing and God is something. It is a matter of knowing persons – some are weak some are strong – and the principle found in Christ is that of a loving personal knowledge.

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Paul Axton preaches: Salvation as Paul applies it in I Corinthians pertains to how we do marriage, how we regard sex, how we negotiate our social station, or how we negotiate identity. Clearly Paul’s message is not that you have now accepted Jesus into your heart and so you are going to heaven when you die – and everything else is secondary. Rather he says you have been bought with a price and what you have been bought out of is a world where sexual gratification, social station, or ethnicity or family may be thought to be the primary point of human existence.

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Paul Axton preaches: Anxiety is created by putting too much importance on the world of marriage, social status and ethnicity. Paul may be using end of the world language metaphorically so as to relativize worldly things but certainly he means these concerns to not have a definitive grip. The way we suspend this anxiety producing grip is to be found in Paul's phrase "as if not." 

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Paul Axton Preaches: The arc of Scripture contains a confrontation with the tragic that is an occasion for what Kierkegaard called the comedic. The Christian is in on the humor if it is not obstructed by bad theology.

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Paul Axton preaches: To get the freedom of sex in marriage correct one must sort out the principle of the flesh from the reality of the body.

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Paul Axton exams an absolute and Christian notion of Freedom and suggests our age is characterized by a pursuit of a false freedom giving rise to the sickness of the age.

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Paul Axton poses the question, "Do Christians have recourse to the law when so-called Christians are abusing them sexually or financially?"

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Paul Axton preaches: The apostle Paul deals with the origin and depth of evil and explains to the Church in Corinth how to insure the power of the Passover Lamb applies to them. Part of what needs to be gotten rid of is the notion that law and love are opposed.

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Paul Axton preaches on I Corinthians 4, where the apostle Paul says he does not judge anyone nor even presume to judge himself. He is describing a relinquishment of judgmentalism achieved by presuming responsibility as a servant and not a legislator of over the church.

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Paul Axton preaches: The Church is an ethic, a form of spiritual worship constituting the presence of Christ. It does not simply have these things or do these things as if there is a gap of separation between them an the Church. This is definitive of the Church.

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