2 Corinthians

Paul was an apostle. Yet he needed the prayers of the Corinthian believers if he was to survive.

Paul wanted the Corinthian Christians to know how helpless he had been in a time of crisis. Why was it so important for them to know? What lessons did Paul want them to learn from his experience?

Paul experienced pain – huge pain. But through Christ he found huge comfort too. His pain and his comfort – both were for the sake of the whole body of Christ.

Paul tells us that believers will share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ. And those sufferings come to us in many different forms.

Paul was an apostle. But he confessed that he was a weak man in need of mercy and comfort every day.