Not With Fancy Talk - 1 Corinthians 1-2

 1 Corinthians 1:28-29 (ESV)

God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

Throughout these first two chapters that Paul wrote to the church at Corinth, he is trying to show them that no human being could have manufactured the story of the Gospel.  And he wants them to know that no human being and their wisdom and fancy words can enhance the Gospel. In fact, using human communication skills does not enhance the message, but can hinder the power of the Gospel.  Just read the rest of what he says in this passage and realize that God does use human agents to convey the Gospel, but He does not use them like some motivational speaker or college professor.  God took the weak and use them to proclaim the power of the Gospel.  Note:

1 Corinthians 1:21-23 (ESV)

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,

1 Corinthians 1:26-27 (ESV)

For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;

1 Corinthians 2:3-5 (ESV)

And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

1 Corinthians 2:6-8 (ESV)

Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

1 Corinthians 2:13 (ESV)

And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.