Little Country Church on the edge of town

Do do do do do do

People coming every day from miles around

For meetings and for Sunday school

And it's very plain to see

It's not the way it used to be.

Welcome to the word for today, featuring the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Chuck

Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a chapter-by- verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the word for today, Pastor Chuck continues his message, spiritual gifts,

as we pick up in 1st Corinthians chapter 12 verse 1.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

Now concerning the spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you to be ignorant.

An interesting statement of Paul, because I think that in the church, one of the areas where

the greatest ignorance does exist today is in the area of spiritual gifts and their

operation within the church and this ignorance is on both sides of the fence. Within the Pentecostal

churches there's a lot of abuse of the gifts of the Spirit

because people are ignorant of their true operation within the church.

On the other side of the fence, among some of the fundamental churches,

there's a lot of ignorance of the gifts of the Spirit as they dismiss them to another age and do not see any validity for them today.

And so where Paul says, I would not have you to be ignorance, sad but true, there's a great deal of ignorance today.

Now you know that you were Gentiles carried away onto these dumb idols

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