 Okay, so 1 Corinthians 9, 27, we face the danger, just like the Apostle Paul, of becoming a castaway. As Paul writes this, Paul was not unfamiliar with the fact that born-again believers could become useless for the cause of Christ. He was not unfamiliar with the fact that believers could cease serving God on a regular and daily basis and go back to the things of the world because he had seen it happen.