1 Corinthians 3:17 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

Corinthian Value:


Christ's Call:



Scripture Readings
Deuteronomy 30:15-20
1 Corinthians 3:1-9
Matthew 5:21-37

Take It With You!

As we learn how to live as disciples of Jesus Christ, here helpful tools will be offered to aid in your study.

We teach that the church truly exists, consisting of true believing and righteous people scattered through the entire world. And we add its marks: the pure teaching of the gospel and the sacraments. This church is properly called "the pillar...of truth" [1 Tim. 3:15] for it retains the pure gospel, and, as Paul says [1 Cor. 3:12], "the foundation," that is, the true knowledge of Christ and faith. Even though there are among these people many weak ones who build upon this foundation structures of stubble that will perish (that is to say, certain useless opinions), nevertheless, because they do not overthrow the foundation, these things are to be both forgiven them and also corrected. The writings of the holy Fathers bear witness that at times even they built stubble upon the foundation but that this did not overthrow their faith. But most of what our opponents defend does overthrow the faith, as when the condemn the article on the forgiveness of sins in which we said that the forgiveness of sins is received by faith. Again, it is a manifest and pernicious error when the opponents teach that people merit the forgiveness of sins by love for God prior to grace. For this, too, removes the "foundation," that is, Christ.

The Apology of the Augsburg Confession, On Article VII and VIII: The Church