Sunday’s Coming

The different people we are (1 Corinthians 9:16-23)

We are all like Paul, boasting to the Corinthian church about being all things to all people.

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There is a theory that our personalities are fractal, which is to say, we are different people not only at different stages in our lives but also at the same time in the various social contexts we inhabit.