You probably know what it’s like to receive distressing or at least discouraging news about friends. These days we are with the apostle Paul and he’s writing his first letter to the people he helped come to know Jesus Christ in the great city of Corinth. Word has come to Paul that in the time since he was last in Corinth some distorted teaching about God has contributed to these new Christians wandering from the truth and in some cases returning back to the despicable lives they lived before they trusted Paul’s Gospel about Jesus.