[This mysterious editing of yesterday's appointed portion of St. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians (3:1-9) appeared on my doorstep this morning. Could it really be....]
Brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but rather as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food. Even now you are still not ready, for you are still of the flesh. For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving according to human inclinations? For when you label faithful priests, "That one belongs to TEC," and another, "That one belongs to ACNA," are you not merely human?
What then is TEC? What then is ACNA? Communities through which the faithful believe, as the Lord assigns to each. TEC planted, ACNA watered, but GOD gives the growth. So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters IS ANYTHING, but only GOD who gives the growth. The one who plants and the one who waters have a common purpose, and each will receive wages according to the labor of each. For we are GOD's servants, working together. You are God's field, God's building. Be servants of the servants of God.
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