Are modern churches and society becoming as morally bad as Corinth?
Yes. Society's moral climate is falling away, and its moral fiber is rotting, making it not much better than Corinth. The same acts can happen in local churches without concern. Paul says the church must confront gross immorality rather than ignore it.
Les teaches that Paul would not let the sin slide; he judged the deed and said the church must deal with it. Les explains that in our own society today we are fast becoming not much better than Corinth—the whole moral climate is falling away, and the moral fiber is rotting out from under us. The same gross acts can take place in local churches and nobody thinks anything of it. People call from various states asking what to do when a couple lives in sin openly and walks into church as though nothing is amiss. Les emphasizes that's not the way it is supposed to be: the church cannot just turn its eyes and say, 'Let them live; it's a free country,' because in the realms of the church it isn't supposed to be. The remedy is to take the couple, confront them as a body of believers, gathered in the name of the Lord Jesus—a corporate action.
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Is our society today as morally corrupt as Corinth was?
Les teaches that our own society is fast becoming not much better than Corinth, with the whole moral climate falling away and the moral fiber rotting out from under us.