NextGenKent

Have you ever been commended for anything recently? Perhaps you’ve needed a recommendation for a job and had to seek out your previous employers. Commendations are commendable, and recommendations are nice when they are favorable, but a re commendations and recommendations still needed today? Should they be sought out? What if they didn’t need to be? What would THAT look like? Paul opens a paragraph to his letter to a group of believers living in Corinth about this. They apparently lived by commendations and recommendations. We read in 2 Corinthians 3:1-11 , Paul’s opening question for the Corinthians is about commendation and if he and his co-traveling friends needed recommendations from others for them to gain a level of respect in their eyes. Paul is telling those believers that they themselves are Paul’s testimony, but of what? The work Paul and friends have done in their community. Paul reaches beyond the temporary world we live in to the eternal world...