All families have fights. More accurately, most families have just ONE fight. Whatever the particular favored bone of contention might be, that same bone keeps getting gnawed on in different places and from different angles. But it is the same old bone, the same old fight.

The apostle Paul’s “family” was the communities of faith for whom he prayed, at which he preached, and from which he parented. The family feud that fueled the two (or some say three) great letters to the Corinthians covers a lot of cantankerous issues. But whatever the particulars there is only one root issue for the apostle Paul: the unassailable truth of Jesus Christ, Savior, Son of God. If his Corinthian children could just get that one thing right, Paul knew that everything else would fall into place.

Today’s text in 2…