Since eating meat offered to idols is not an issue for us today, what is Paul trying to tell the 21st century church? Is this about more than eating meat for us as well as for the early church? Obviously, the answer to this question is yes and the answer to the first question is what we are going to explore.
Even at the time Paul write these words, he was not really addressing the issue of eating meat offered to idols. While there was a controversy about this in the church in Corinth, Paul uses this question to address a far more important problem – how we treat our fellow believers. That was the underlying problem in Corinth in the first century and it remains a problem for the church today.
