A Message From our Director of Missions: May 2015
This column will be part confession, part challenge. In 1 Corinthians 6.12 we read “All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.” (NASB) Different translations render that phrase as “dominated” (ESV), or ‘brought under its control’ (HCSB, KJV). Principles of biblical interpretation say to view this passage in the context of sexual relations, but Paul also talks about appetites in general (v. 13), unholy unions with unbelievers (2 Cor. 6.14) and expand