Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible 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 Yahweh. Since most of the spiritual inventories or tests are more of a personality test or a

natural gifts 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. So there's not always a correlation. If you want to know what your

spiritual gifts are, one way to tell is by asking other people how the church is currently being

built up by your presence. You may have the natural gift

of administration, but as far as church is concerned, God might have given you the gift of knowledge.

Paul even says we can ask God to give us spiritual gifts that we don't have. That means our gifts

can change over time. They're given by God, and as always, the giver is the one who chooses what to

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