Fr. Funston’s sermon on February 3 was unscripted. In place of that sermon, we link to an excellent sermon by Fr. David Romanik of Church of the Heavenly Rest in Abilene, Texas.
As we all know, Paul is not particularly impressed with the way the Corinthians are living in community; they don’t seem to be working and playing well with others. For a variety of reasons, the Corinthians simply could not get along, and most of their problems stemmed from one group in the community thinking they were superior to another. There were groups who thought they had superior knowledge or who thought they possessed superior spiritual gifts or who thought they had been baptized by a superior apostle or who were convinced that their superior economic station entitled them to eat the Lord’s supper whenever they wanted. Paul’s response to all of these people is that the differences they perceive are unimportant, that their unity in Christ is what matters.