1 Corinthians 05 Round Two: You Hangin’ Out With Who?!

A church can’t be healthy if it applauds what harms it. We open 1 Corinthians 5 and meet a community tolerating a scandal so blatant that even Corinth’s pagan neighbors would blush. Paul’s response is not a rant; it’s a roadmap. He draws a sharp line between struggling with sin and celebrating it, and he calls the church to act—not to shame, but to rescue. That tension between conviction and compassion becomes the heartbeat of our conversation as we trace why boundaries protect the flock, pre...