1 & 2 Corinthians

Through the course of my learning journey I have learnt much but I shall present three interesting things I have gleaned. First, it was through the process of my group presentation and exegetical understanding of the passage in 2 Corinthians 10 v. 12-18. I found it something of a paradox when I was playing my role as “humble” pastor because at one point I had to answer questions pertaining to the assurance that God can approve of my work, and if my work in the ministry glorifies God. Is that not boasting in my heart if I should presume that God approves of what I do? This is probably a subtle struggle in Asian culture of true humility and false modesty where some does not outwardly boast about their ministry but there is a tendency that one finds inwardly a pride in their work to think that their small Church is small and “humble”. Ultimately, I believe that this area is an existential aspect where one knows that whatever he has for his ministry is given by God, big or small, is entrusted to the minister according to their ability and therefore he does his utmost best by the enabling of God to use him and if God sees fit to grow and expand his area of ministry, so be it because it is God who gives us the ministry of reconciliation, everything that we are and have comes from God.
The second thing which I have learnt is in the area of the Lord’s Supper. I realised that it has to do with the body of Christ as a whole if one sins another member. But I was thinking that while in that context , it speaks of abusing and being sacrilegious to the whole body by not considering the rest of the members in its immediacy, I think that personal sin still has its part in affecting the social dynamics with one another in the body. In some sense, since one member is hurt, the whole feels with it, there could well be a concentric effect of one member’s sin to the whole.
The third thing I have learnt is the theories behind 2 Corinthians and the missing letters. Some commentators has it that two letters were written between 1 and 2 Corinthians, others has it that 2 Corinthians is made up of several fragments and some has it that portions of 2 Corinthians was written by a pseudographer. Whatever the case, the canon of Scripture is what it is for a reason and yet infallible. I wonder why so many times why much of modern scholarship speculates and questions Pauline authorship take for example Ephesians and the Pastoral Epistles and probably more, taking to consideration that the purpose of each letter has an inexplicable connection with who the author is.