Daily Devotions
1 Corinthians
"Concerning spiritual gifts..."
Text: 1 Corinthians 12:1
COMPLEX PROBLEMS
The problems that Paul had to address in the Corinthian Church were anything but easy! The problems were deep and complex. Chapter after chapter was devoted to resolving these issues. They could not be easily dismissed! Solutions had to be found or the church could flounder and fail!
PROBLEMS UNDERSTANDING SPIRITUAL GIFTS
Paul began writing 1 Corinthians with noting that the Church had been enriched in so many ways (1 Corinthians 1:5). One of the blessings that God gives was “spiritual gifts”. But even in this area, the Corinthians Church was engulfed in problems. 1 Corinthians 12-14 ought to be read together closely. These chapters are inter-related.
THE PROBLEM OF “IGNORANCE”
Paul swiftly entered into the discussion of spiritual gifts with these words. One of the attendant problems was “ignorance”.
“Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren,
I do not want you to be ignorant:
You know that you were Gentiles,
carried away to these dumb idols, however you were led.”
1 Corinthians 12:1-2