CORINTH — With the congregation of believers still dealing with the fallout from multiple scandals, the Corinthian church expressed hope that the letter the Apostle Paul wrote about all their sexual immorality wouldn't become public.
The letter, a stinging rebuke from the church's founding apostle, confronted multiple members for their objectionable behaviors. It left the believers convicted and committed to changing their ways, but worried about what could happen if the general public ever somehow found out about the situation.
"It's not like this letter will ever be passed around to other groups of people, right?" asked Sosthenes, a member of the Christian church in Corinth. "We've been dealing with some pretty messy stuff. We're ready to own it and acknowledge all the ways we've gone wrong, but we just hope Paul's letter stays on the ‘down low' and nobody else hears about it. That would be really embarrassing."
Other members of the church voiced the same concern. "Hopefully, this all just stays among us here," said one man who asked to remain anonymous because he had been outed for having an affair with his stepmother. "Paul really called us out on the carpet, and rightfully so, but if this all became public knowledge, we'd all look pretty bad. Paul's an upstanding guy, though, so I doubt this news will get spread around. I mean, what's going to happen? It's not like they're going to round up a bunch of letters Paul wrote to different churches and publish them in one collected volume or anything like that. No, I think we're good."
At publishing time, the congregation of the Corinthian church had grown significantly more concerned after a courier brought them a copy of a letter Paul had written to the believers in Rome.
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