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The Appropriate Use of Gifts: Tongues or Prophecy? Is this about Others or me?

The Appropriate Use of Gifts: Tongues or Prophecy? Is this about Others or me?. 1 Corinthians 14:1-25 Page 1787. A Reminder:. Chapter 12 used the image of a body to show how we are interconnected. The body image shows the need to use our gifts for others.

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The Appropriate Use of Gifts: Tongues or Prophecy? Is this about Others or me?

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  1. The Appropriate Use of Gifts:Tongues or Prophecy?Is this about Others or me? 1 Corinthians 14:1-25 Page 1787

  2. A Reminder: • Chapter 12 used the image of a body to show how we are interconnected. • The body image shows the need to use our gifts for others. • This image also shows that God is the one who has placed us where He wants us.

  3. Chapter 13: • Desiring the greater gift – LOVE! • God is the fulfillment of this passage!

  4. 1 Corinthians 14:1 Page 1787 • Follow the way of love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy. • Prophecy or tongues – what is the big deal?

  5. The Text – Part 1 Verses 1-12 • Verses 2-4 For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries with his spirit. 3But everyone who prophesies speaks to men for their strengthening, encouragement and comfort. 4 He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.

  6. Verses 11-12: • If then I do not grasp the meaning of what someone is saying, I am a foreigner to the speaker, and he is a foreigner to me. 12 So it is with you. Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts, try to excel in gifts that build up the church.

  7. Verses 13-17 “I don’t understand” • These verses speak to a disconnect between the spirit and the mind. • 13-15 the person speaking does understand what they are doing but it looks cool! • 16-17 other people around him do not understand so they can not participate. • Paul adds his perspective in verses 18-21.

  8. Understandable and Relevant Worship: • Verses 22-25 • Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; prophecy, however, is for believers, not for unbelievers. 23 So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and some who do not understand or some unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your mind? • Worship is not about YOU!

  9. Understandable and Relevant Worship: • 24 But if an unbeliever or someone who does not understand comes in while everybody is prophesying, he will be convinced by all that he is a sinner and will be judged by all, 25 and the secrets of his heart will be laid bare. So he will fall down and worship God, exclaiming, "God is really among you!"

  10. So what!! • That was then, this is now. • How important is it that our worship assembly is understandable and relevant?

  11. Be on the lookout! • Avoid “christianese.”

  12. Be on the lookout! • Avoid “christianese.” • Ask and clarify rather than assume. • Show context not proof text. • Be relevant – so what and what now? • Less of us and more of God. • Know why you do what you do. • Intentional connection. • Be seeker sensitive not seeker driven.

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