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 their 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 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

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