Now about our brother Apollos: I strongly urged him to go to you with the brothers. He was quite unwilling to go now, but he will go when he has the opportunity (1 Corinthians 16:12).

Our brother Apollos

Do you remember Apollos? He is kind of a background character in Acts, a traveling preacher and teacher who was spreading the gospel in the same areas as Paul. He was at the heart of some rather unpleasant controversy in Corinth. Remember back in the first chapter, where, “One of you says ‘I follow Paul’; another, ‘I follow Apollos’; another, ‘I follow Cephas’; still another, ‘I follow Christ.’?”

Yep, that Apollos

The Corinthians saw Paul and Apollos as competitors.

Paul did not.

Paul seems to have considered Apollos a fellow worker, a partner in the gospel.

A brother

Beloved, look around. Do you see others as competition to be bested, or as partners to embrace? 

When in doubt, I vote to embrace.

Happy Wednesday, Beloved