Why are your relationships a mess? Why do you struggle to connect with your spouse – your children – your parents – your brothers and sisters – your colleagues – your boss? Why do you feel disconnected from yourself?
All these problems reveal an underlying dysfunction in our relationship with God. You know what your biggest problem is?
You don’t love God!
If you loved God, you would do what he says. So the fact that you don’t do what he says means that you don’t love God! How can we be restored to right relationship with God?
We need to believe the gospel. And we need to obey the gospel – in its implications for our relationships with each other.
Paul was concerned that he would find the Corinthian church “fragmented, dysfunctional, and harboring recalcitrant, unrepentant, immoral members.” (Guthrie, 628)
And so he gives them two warnings here at the end of 2 Corinthians...
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