When Paul the apostle left Corinth after having lived and preached the gospel there for 18 months, he left behind a thriving new church with radical converts. Yet when he arrived he it was in weakness, as he wrote in chapter 2 of the letter of 1 Corinthians. Paul discovered the secret that at the heart of effective Christian ministry is a complete dependence on the Spirit of God, where in being weak he was in fact strong. This is the second talk in the series through 1 Corinthians, where Grant also gives an introduction to the series, the city of Corinth and the context into which Paul was writing.