2 Corinthians 5 - This Body Is a Tent — And That's Good News

Paul describes the body in which we live as a tent, and he does so not as an insult but as an accurate account of something built for a season rather than for permanence. In this episode of the Root Issues Podcast we work through 2 Corinthians 5 and consider what it means to inhabit a temporary dwelling without holding it in contempt and without grasping it too tightly.

The chapter does not begin abruptly, for Paul has just been speaking of treasure carried in vessels of clay and of an outer self that is steadily wearing away, and it is from that point that he takes up the image of the tent, declaring that should this earthly tent be taken down there is already a building from God prepared for us, a house not made by human hands and eternal in the heavens.