I have applied all this to Apollos and myself for your benefit, brothers and sisters, so that you may learn through us the meaning of the saying, ‘Nothing beyond what is written’, so that none of you will be puffed up in favour of one against another. For who sees anything different in you?What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift? (1Corinthians 4: 6-7)

The differences between Paul and Apollos (and Cephas?) are insignificant. To focus on the differences is a distraction.

What Paul and Apollos share in Christ - what we all share in Christ - is where we should be attentive.

Pride in meaningless distinctions is to take what is natural - phusis - and to inflate it - phusioo -beyond recognition.

God delights in diversity. The natural world abounds in differences. But each and all remain expressions of God's nature.

When we argue over whether a goose is better than a turkey (Apollos is better than Paul) we have missed the important point.