Lastest message ‘An absurd wonder’ | Derek Tidball | 1 Corinthians 1:18–31

Paul states that the death of Christ is ‘of first importance’ to Christians. At the start of his letter to the recently-founded church in Corinth he puts some flesh on this claim. That Christians should follow and worship a person who had been executed, in the most humiliating way, as a state criminal is absurd. Yet, he explains, incongruously this is the way God has chosen to rescue the world and save individuals. This absurd event becomes a wonder as through its apparent feeble stupidity God exercises his power to transform people, of all kinds, into a community of pardoned, cleansed and liberated persons.