Volume 3 Issue 12 Page 3 April-May 2010 The New Testament reveals that the Corinthian fellowship[called by God] was established by the apostle Paul during his second missionary journey (Acts 18:1-11; I Cor. 2:1, 2), which was in 52 or 53 AD. Three years later Paul wrote an epistle to the Corinthians that we now refer to as I Corinthians. This was, however, not the first epistle Paul had sent to them. We know there was at least one previous epistle because of Paul‟s comments in I Corinthians 5:9. Paul states in I Corinthians 5:9, “I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators.” The central subject of this earlier epistle was the sin of a young man who was cohabiting with his father‟s wife (his stepmother). In I Corinthians 4:17 we read that Paul sent Timothy on a special mission to bring the Corinthians “into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.” Paul wrote these words three years after he had established the Corinthian fellowship. When he first visited the city of Corinth with Barnabas, he instructed the new converts in how they should organize their worship services, how they should appoint elders, and how they should conduct themselves during the Passover observance. It is evident that he also instructed them in observing the Days of Unleavened Bread, which he directly refers to in I Corinthians 5:8. This Scriptural admonition has been totally overlooked by some Sabbatarian churches which observe the weekly Sabbath but reject the annual Sabbaths. A minister in one Sabbatarian fellowship boldly declared that Christians today who observe the annual holy days are “trampling on the blood of Christ.” If that were true, then Paul was guilty of a grievous sin because he not only observed the annual Sabbaths but also taught the churches he raised up to observe them. The book of Acts records Paul‟s participation in holy day observance throughout his ministry. Of special interest is the account in Acts 13. Below is a short summary of this account: Theological Research Report--© Carl D. Franklin--theolresearch@hotmail
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