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n Corinth Paul experienced many encouragements and discouragements. It was a dangerous city to work in but the LORD afforded the apostle a measure of protection and he was able to stay there for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God. v11.
(B) Discouragements.
(1) Paul was daunted by the task facing him.
Corinth was never going to be an easy place to witness for Jesus. It was sited on the narrow isthmus of land that joined Northern to Southern Greece. This important strategic situation meant Corinth became a great market town and the home of the Isthmian games. Corinth was also a very wicked city. Located on a hill overlooking the city was a temple to Aphrodite. The shrine was serviced by 1000 priestesses who acted as so called sacred prostitutes. Every evening they would go down into Corinth to ply their trade.
Paul felt inadequate for the work Jesus had called him to do. The lion-hearted apostle was apprehensive about preaching the gospel in such a cess pool of iniquity. He wrote later to the church at Corinth: I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. 1Cor2v3.
Paul's example should both comfort and challenge us when we are fearful about doing God's will. Sometimes we are given a hard job to do. We may be called to: care for a sick relative, visit a dying man in hospital, discipline an erring brother, go on a long and dangerous journey, give our testimony to non-Christians or run a youth club for difficult children. It is a comfort to know that Paul experienced weakness and fear. It is a challenge to realise that notwithstanding his apprehension Paul preached Christ crucified with a demonstration of the Spirit's power. 1Cor2v4.
(2) Limited success in the synagogue.
Once again the Jews resisted Paul's ministry in the synagogue. Luke suggests this when he writes: Every sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks. v4. Paul failed to convinced the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah and in the end they actively oppose him.
It is hard to cope with failure. I had been a reasonably successful teacher until I resigned to care for my father. When I resumed teaching in another school I inherited a run down department. For two years the GCSE results of my pupils were the worst in the school. It was absolutely sickening to appear such a failure. It was wormwood and gall to my ego.
One of the reasons an increasing number of non-conformist pastors in England burn out, succumb to stress and break down is the intense disappointment of ministering to the gospel hardened. I was talking recently to a long retired pastor who said, "I couldn't be a minister today. When I was a young man in the 1960's there was some movement - conversions occurred on a regular basis. It was encouraging. Now - nothing happens." Year in and year out God's servants proclaim Christ crucified and there are no conversions. This is depressing. It deadens zeal. No farmer would be enthusiastic about sowing the precious seed if summer after summer there was no harvest.
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