Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

Spiritual gift abuse.

You need to know what it is.

You need to know how to spot it.

And you need to know how to confront it.

Today we'll cover the final five most common abuses of spiritual gifts.

So grab a pen if you can and we'll get started in just a minute.

Today on Living on the Edge, Chip Ingram concludes our series called You Were Made for More,

How to Discover God's Purpose for Your Life.

He's unpacking the dangers of spiritual gift abuse and providing the warning signs every believer needs to know.

From counterfeiting and demonic deception to treating your gift as optional,

Chip closes with a sobering accountability reminder and a powerful, hopeful call

to steward well what God has entrusted to you. If you ever need to revisit the series or find

more from Chip, just go to living on theedge.org. But now here's Chip with his message titled

Warning, Beware of Spiritual Gift Abuse.

I wanna go over what I think are the 10 most common abuses

of spiritual gifts.

Number one, beware when spiritual gifts are used

as a means of manipulation, power, or control

in personal and or church relationships.

And notice they're all going to start with beware.

That's a warning sign.

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