Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

We're doing an international challenge this week and the reason we're doing it isn't

because we want to pad our stats. It's because there are more than 3 billion people who have

never heard the name of Jesus and we want to help

change that so we hope we'll join us. We'd love for you to invite two of your

friends who live in other countries to join us for the Bible Recap. The more people who fall in love with God's

word, the more they will spread the love of God. Plus it's free. Okay, let's recap.

Today Paul continues to address problems the Church at Corinth is experiencing in their regular worship meetings.

It's never fun to have to resolve issues, but fortunately Paul isn't afraid of conflict.

He's hit on some touchy topics so far and today is no

different. He opens by addressing the gifts that God has given each of them for

building up the church. There are lots of perspectives on spiritual gifts so I'll

try to address the main viewpoints briefly as we move

through the text. One of the common misunderstandings about spiritual gifts is that they're

personality adjacent but since these gifts are given by the spirit they only show up when we get the spirit,

when we enter into a relationship with Yawe.

Since most of the spiritual inventories or tests are more of a personality test or a natural

gift assessment, they aren't necessarily the best way to determine what spiritual gifts we have.

There's nothing wrong with using these tests to discover our natural giftings, those can benefit the church too.

But the tests aren't necessarily helpful in figuring out our

supernatural gifts. Here's what I mean. If Moses, who wasn't good with words, had

taken a spiritual gifts test, he probably wouldn't have tested as a prophet, teacher, or leader, but those are the ways God's spirit equipped and used him.

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