Thus repeating the mistakes of the church in Corinth; where it was reported, one of the brethren was sleeping with his father’s wife, and yet the congregation was arrogant. I sometimes wonder whether the sexual immorality and greed among some of the ... famous church leaders, is related to the gratuity of the flocks.
Press forward to the Mercy of. Christ in repentance.
It's hard to NOT notice the carnality of the Corinthian church and their abuse of the sign gifts.
Paul told them that they were not mature in Christ, a judgment he did not give to the other churches he wrote to. And they didn't have the same problem with exercising the gifts that the Corinthians did.
And here we live in a a very carnal age, with lifestyles and Scriptural shallowness demonstrated by the Corinthians, and imagine that, we have much the same problem exercising the gifts.