what's that sound I hear

Tuesday January 18th, 1st Corinthians 1: 7-9 Just think—you don't need a thing, you've got it all! All God's gifts are right in front of you as you wait expectantly for our Master Jesus to arrive on the scene for the Finale. Paul is talking to the church at Corinth. They were hung up on spiritual gifts and who had what and which ones were more important than other ones, etc. Paul’s message is that each gift is important and that every gathering of the body of Christ has all the spiritual gifts needed for that body of Christ gathered at that time. Our church has all the gifts needed for this time and place; your church has all the gifts needed for this time and place. It is often only a matter of coaxing these gifts out of those sitting in the pews. After years of TV indoctrination, the problem is not a lack of spiritual gifts, it is the couch potato Christian mentality that tends to keep the people in the pews looking for, and being, entertained. One of the destructive gifts from the current fundamentalists’ movement is the individuality that exists in any given congregation, exemplified by the question, “are you(singular) saved? Indicating that we might be saved from the fate of hell while someone else is not. We are never really saved only from, but rather we are always saved for. Paul was also dealing with this destructive individuality in Corinth. The questions swirled around spiritual gifts and who had them and which ones were better than others. They refused to see themselves as “a” body with many parts and many callings and many gifts. When the body sees itself as the “body,” rather than a bunch of individuals in competition, that is when things start to hum.