1.What is Paul’s next topic? .

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The collection for the saints.

Church collections taken today are to a great extent for the support of the ministry, and especially for the construction and operation of the physical plant.

However, there were no church buildings in Corinth—the believers met in homes.

The collections that were taken were for the poor Christians of Jerusalem.

Jerusalem was having economic problems at the time and the Christians there were affected.

As Paul journeyed through Asia Minor and Greece he collected money that he brought to Jerusalem for the poor.