Why It’s Important //

This passage instructs us about the order and contribution culture that should take place during gatherings. Everybody has something to contribute and everything that is shared during a gathering should be done in a way that the church may be built up.

What It's Talking About // 

The apostle Paul wrote this letter to the young church in Corinth towards the end of his three year period in Ephesus. This first series of letters addresses many of the moral issues Corinthians wrestled with: marriage and divorce, paganism, lawsuits and sexual immorality. This letter continues to be timely for the church today, both to instruct and to inspire. Similarly to the Corinthians, christians are still influenced by their cultural environment, and many of the questions and problems that confronted the church at Corinth are still very much with us.

1 Cor 14:26-33 NIV

26 What then shall we say, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each of you has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. Everything must be done so that the church may be built up. 

27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, two—or at the most three—should speak, one at a time, and someone must interpret. 

28 If there is no interpreter, the speaker should keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and to God.

29 Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said. 

30 And if a revelation comes to someone who is sitting down, the first speaker should stop. 

31 For you can all prophesy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged. 

32 The spirits of prophets are subject to the control of prophets. 

33 For God is not a God of disorder but of peace—as in all the congregations of the Lord’s people.