Firstly, I said in the previous entry that I was not going to post until I had written out the book of Deuteronomy.  Yesterday I finished that task. 

Secondly, our small group is now starting a study on 1 Corinthians.  This is the introduction to that book.

the first exercise is to look at the following images and just write what you think you see:

What is in the foreground and what is in the background?

What details can you pick out in these ruins?

The Corinthians were living in a pluralistic, multiethnic metropolis.  It was the centre of a Romanized Greece.  Transportation routes would come through the Isthmus of Corinth by land and by sea.  How might this give us hope that the problems faced by Corinth would be very similar to the problems of living in a city like Chicago today?

Going Deeper:

Look through the slides of the following Powerpoint and think how the first slides of Corinth relate to the latter slides of Chicago.Corinth and Chicago

Use a browser like Google, Yahoo, or Bing to look up the terms:  Corinth, Diolkos, Apollo, Bema, and Aphrodite.