"How can any one of you with a case against another dare to bring it to the unjust for judgment instead of to the holy ones?" (1 Corinthians 6: 1).
St Paul upbraided the Corinthian Christians who were new and baby Christians for behaving in a manner completely outside "our manner of doing things." Every family, every household has its "manner of doing things." With time, your family manner of doing things become the tradition of your family. The Christian Church is the Household of God. She too has its manner of acting and doing things.
"If, therefore, you have courts for everyday matters, do you seat as judges people of no standing in the church?" (1 Corinthians 6: 4).
No! No! No!
"Can it be that there is not one among you wise enough to be able to settle a case between brothers? But rather brother goes to court against brother, and that before unbelievers?" (1 Corinthians 6: 5 - 6).
Yes there are many among us who can settle our grievances against one another. O Holy Spirit help us!
"Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will." (Romans 12: 2).
Got it! When we conform to the "manner of doing things" of the world, we sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.
"I chose you from the world,
that you may go and bear fruit that will last, says the Lord." (John 15: 16).
It is our vocation and mission to make the world conform to our manner of doing things not the other way around.
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