I Corinthians 2

“My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power” (4-5). Paul was concerned because the believers in Corinth were obsessed with their leaders (Paul, Apollos, and Peter/Cephas, ch 1), which was undermining their faith in Jesus. Paul argued that access to God’s ways and wisdom was not limited to a gifted group, but was open to all God’s people, through the presence and power of the Spirit (12-16).

“But we have the mind of Christ” (16). God has poured out his Spirit on us, individually and together, so that we can know and follow Jesus.