1 Corinthians 3:4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
Paul is letting the people know here that you are not to base your salvation on a man and that they do not fully understand Christianity. He goes on to to tell them they have their eyes focused on the people who brought them the gospel and not the gospel itself. This is letting us know to that we should not be letting ministers be the focus of our worship They are their to bring the message of the gospel an just be a servant of God. Most of the time it takes the encouragement of several people before someone comes to the saving grace of Jesus
Christ. By this many may play a part in someones salvation but God is the one quickens it. Many can minister the word but the Lord alone is the who can give the faith to the spiritually ignorant and dead. Salvation is God’s work of grace to whom He chooses to give it.