LESSON XXIII.
(Scripture Reading Exercise.)
PAUL, THE APOSTLE, ON SPIRITUAL GIFTS IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
ANALYSIS | REFERENCES. |
I. Unity of Spirit, but Diversity of Gifts. | These three chapters in Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians (Chapters xii, xiii, xiv), and the New Testament, passim, for what others have said on Spiritual Gifts. |
II. The Church as an Organism Entitled to the Manifestation of All the Gifts. | |
III. Pre-eminence of Charity Over All Other Gifts. | |
IV. The Gift of Prophecy Preferable to the Gift of Tongues. | |
V. Decency and Order to Be Observed in All Things. |
SPECIAL TEXT: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." (I Cor. viii:1.)