Crossroads (Week 25) - 1 Corinthians 11:1-16

If you’ve ever traveled much, you know that customs can vary from country to country, even region to region within our own country. Sometimes, conflict can arise when customs collide. Throughout our “Crossroads” series, we’ve seen the city of Corinth as a crossroads for trade and travel.

People from all over the known world traveled through Corinth, bringing with them their cultural customs and practices. In the church in Corinth, Jewish believers brought their customs of head covering concerning men and women, and the Greek believers brought their customs concerning the same thing. For us, in our culture today, that might not seem like a big deal, but in that culture, head covering had significance. As a result, there was trouble in the church over who should and who shouldn’t have their heads covered.

As we’ll see over the next couple of weeks, what the Apostle Paul had to say on the subject has something to say even to us in our culture today.