OUR FATHER OF WHOM ONLY WE BOAST

The apostle Paul was controverting the notion that had emerged among the people of the church at Corinth, that there was some significance attached to the apostles who served the people there. Some of them had taken to boasting about the human leaders in their midst which Paul addresses in 1 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 5;

What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. 

Paul asserted here that there was no value to fostering loyalties to any specific servant of God who had worked among them.

Each person who participated in the endeavour of bringing them to salvation was simply doing the task to which they were assigned by the Lord.

To boast of affiliation with particular ministers of the gospel incorrectly ascribed credit to servants that should have been exclusively given to the Lord.

Amen.