Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

Today's program comes with a caution, red lights flashing.

It's a serious program.

We've been talking about spiritual gifts,

but in the arena of spiritual gifts, at times they are abused. We're going to talk about

spiritual gift abuse and how at times your gift can be leveraged in ways that God never intended it, and you need to be aware of

when that is, where that is, and how to prevent it.

Welcome to Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

Spiritual gifts are powerful, but power, when it's misapplied or driven by the wrong motives,

can do real damage.

Today, Chip turns to 1 Corinthians 12 and walks us through the first five of 10 warning signs

that spiritual gifts are being abused.

If you've ever been hurt by gift abuse or wondered if you might be guilty of it yourself,

today's message is exactly what you need.

Well, now here's Chip Ingram with a message titled,

Warning, beware of spiritual gift abuse.

If you are indeed the spiritual paintbrush in God's hand by your gift,

and he wants to dip it into the palette and the colors of his grace,

so that your life could literally begin to make imprints of grace

and change another person's life for all eternity.

Something that powerful usually has a dark side.

In other words, if gifts do that much good,

...