In the opening words of his first epistle to the Corinthians, Paul wrote, “Christ did not send me to baptize, butto preach the gospel” (1 Corinthians 1:17, emphasis added). Just a few verses later, he wrote, “We preachChrist crucified” (1 Corinthians 1:23, emphasis added). Then a paragraph or two after that, he wrote again, “I …