Just as a small amount of leaven within a lump of unleavened dough will quickly leaven all of it, the undisciplined sin of just one Christian will quickly influence other Christians to sin too.  The point of Christianity is to be like Jesus and thus different from how one was before they obeyed the gospel (Rom. 6:6-7; 8:29).  Towards that end, by disfellowshipping their unrepentant brother the Corinthians would be “cleans(ing) out the old leaven” of sin and thus helping themselves to “be a new lump” of “unleavened” bread (5:7a), i.e., a new creation who reflects Jesus (Col. 3:10). … Read More 1 Corinthians: “Cleanse Out The Old Leaven”