1 Corinthians 5:6b-8

“For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival.” (1 Corinthians 5:7-8)

A major shift occurs here. The theological discussion of the first four chapters dealing with the church’s cliquish behavior, pride, and attachment to secular culture now moves to a head-on confrontation of specific community issues. The connection between chapters 1–4 and chapters 5 and 6 must not be missed, though. Because the community of the Corinthian Christians looks nothing like a true Christlike community, their vision has become so blurred that they cannot evaluate and judge even the most obvious and explicit moral issues from a “Christ perspective.” When a church looks and functions as described in the first four chapters, it invariably leads to the behavior of the next two chapters. First Corinthians 5:1–13 opens this section with the most unconscionable issue imaginable.

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