Opening Up 1 Corinthians

by Derek Prime

Publisher:

Day One

, 2005

Overview

Paul's first letter to the church at Corinth is full of practical relevance to the church of our day. How should people live in the light of a surrounding immoral culture? What should be the church's response to blatant sin on the part of its members? How should the giving and stewardship of the church be administered? What happens after a person dies? How should spiritual gifts be exercised, and what is the place of love in all this? Derek Prime provides a succinct treatment of these topics, and, in it all, he points to the centrality, prominence and glory of the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Contents

Top Highlights

“The Spirit’s principal task in our lives is to reproduce in us the character of our Lord Jesus Christ. The priority in that character reproduction is love; and it is from love that all the other aspects of the Spirit’s fruit flow.” (Page 116)

“A secret of successful marriage is not to insist upon what our partner owes us but to focus on our duty to our marriage partner.” (Page 63)

“We should not share in any activity with an unconverted person from which he or she will need to turn away when converted to our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Page 92)

“Love’s superiority to other gifts is summed up: it ‘never fails’ (v. 8).” (Page 118)

“Divisions and quarrelling in the church hinder its effective proclamation and sharing of the gospel.” (Page 17)

Product Details

• Title: Opening Up 1 Corinthians
• Author: Derek Prime
• Publisher: Day One
• Publication Date: 2005
• Pages: 160

About Derek Prime

Derek Prime, was born and brought up in London, where he received his secondary education at Westminster City School. National Service immediately followed for eighteen months, during which time he was attached as an army teacher to the Royal Scots Greys in Germany. Upon demobilisation he went to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he studied history and then theology. For the next three years he taught at a London Grammar School, prior to his ordination to become pastor of Lansdowne Evangelical Free Church in West Norwood in south London. After twelve years at Lansdowne he was called to Charlotte Chapel in Edinburgh where he was pastor for eighteen years. He then devoted himself to writing and an itinerant ministry. During this time, sadly, within a few years of one another, both his younger daughter and his wife died of cancer. However, he was greatly blessed in having his other daughter and older son in Edinburgh and second son in London, giving him the joy of eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren, an ever-growing family!