Division. Disobedience. Legalism. These are a few of the many problems that plague churches today, just as they plagued the church at Corinth in the first century. Out of concern for that young congregation Paul addressed the issues boldly, and Mark Dever follows him through the letter, treating twelve challenges in turn.

The method is expositional rather than topical: each challenge is handled from the passage where Paul handles it, which keeps the book from becoming a list of opinions about church problems. Dever writes out of the revitalization of Capitol Hill Baptist Church. Part of the 9Marks line, and useful to elders diagnosing their own congregation.