How many building materials does God give us to build with in 1 Corinthians 3?
God provides six different building materials for believers to build with in 1 Corinthians 3. The context describes a worker building a segment of a wall as part of God's building, with every believer involved. These six materials are the options used in that building work, and all believers labor together for God's glory.
Les teaches that in 1 Corinthians 3 the believer should picture himself as a worker building a wall of brick. God gives six different materials to work with as each person builds in the segment of the wall that is part of God's building. Every believer is involved in this labor, working together like bees in a hive toward a common purpose: bringing glory to God and filling up the Body of Christ. Les notes the analogy breaks down because God does not kick out the lazy worker, while bees will. The point is that all are laboring with God, as God's husbandry and God's building.
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
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What six materials does God give believers to build with in 1 Corinthians 3?
In the building imagery, God gives each believer six different materials to work with as they build their segment of the wall that is part of God's building, and every believer is involved in that work.
What is the building imagery in 1 Corinthians 3 about—what are we building?
In 1 Corinthians 3 he explains graphically how the six materials are going to be sifted out in our section of the wall, because we are each building our own section of the wall.