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1 Corinthians 6:1-7 Office Of Justice 7 Apr 2024

1Co 6:1 Is one of you with a complaint against another so brazen
as to seek judgment from sinners and not from God's holy people?
2 Do you not realize that the holy people of God
are to be the judges of the world?
And if the world is to be judged by you,
are you not competent for petty cases?
3 Do you not realize
that we shall be the judges of angels?
- then quite certainly over matters of this life.
4 But when you have matters of this life to be judged,
you bring them before those who are of no account in the Church!
5 I say this to make you ashamed of yourselves.
Can it really be that it is impossible to find in the community
one sensible person capable of deciding questions between brothers,
6 and that this is why brother goes to law against brother,
and that before unbelievers?
7 No; it is a fault in you,
by itself, that one of you should go to law against another at all:
why do you not prefer to suffer injustice,
why not prefer to be defrauded?

Saint Paul ascribes a lot of judgement power to the church.

Powerless Church

Today's Catholic Church is not believed to be a capable judge. I am surprised to see what difference some 2000 years of time makes.

Prayer

Jesus, once again, teach us about values for your church in this time.