1 Corinthians cuts deep into a person’s heart and daily thinking to almost any decision. Am I self serving, wanting something in return? Am I self promoting, wanting to be known as a good person? Am I thinking that I’m better than the next person, because of all the good that I’m doing, or because I do not have ill intent toward others? I’m additional, our culture seems to be sliding to greater division and anger. 1 Corinthians 13 is considered a weak and ineffective method to address many social problems. But God’s method is viewed as foolish by the world’s standards. God’s upside down approach emphasizes that love is self sacrificing with no strings attached. Being unconditional and fair are symptoms of a changed life because of the Spirit’s residence.
“God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to be rubbed into the secular community, as salt is rubbed into meat, to stop it going bad. And when society does go bad, we Christians tend to throw up our hands in pious horror and reproach the non-Christian world; but should we not rather reproach ourselves? One can hardly blame unsalted meat for going bad. It cannot do anything else. The real question to ask is: Where is the salt?” — John R.W. Stott
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