Everything Belongs to You

Today’s reading: 1 Corinthians 3:5-23

“So don’t boast about following a particular human leader. For everything belongs to you— whether Paul or Apollos or Peter, or the world, or life and death, or the present and the future. Everything belongs to you, and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.” - 1 Corinthians‬ ‭3:21-23‬ ‭NLT‬‬

There is big talk among today’s Christian leaders about decentralizing leadership in the church, releasing people into ministry. Yet Paul was the first to get it. He knew what was happening with this Jesus movement wasn’t because of him or for his ego.

For the first time in human history, there would be no hierarchical structure. Christianity places everyone on the same plain. We are equally important. This was the original civil rights movement.

Paul did more for the expansion of Christianity than anyone, perhaps, in human history. Yet he knew the end game was not for him to have the church named after him.

This was about the foundation: Jesus.

This was about building eternal structures on that foundation.