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Worship is of immense concern in the church and ironically the source of controversy and dispute. Can we get behind the question of what style of worship we should engage in to understand the bedrock foundation for God's people--honoring him as he desires? Is the dissatisfaction with worship voiced by so many perhaps a result of our having wandered from biblical teaching on the subject? Through...

the person who speaks in a tongue to ‘pray that he may interpret what he says’ (v. 13). If there is no-one to interpret, the tongues-speaker should ‘keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and God’ (v. 28). Paul may not be saying that prophecy is the greatest of the gifts on some absolute scale, but only that it is more important than tongues on the scale of reference adopted.39 The tongues-speaker ‘edifies himself’ (v. 4), but the person who prophesies ‘edifies the church’. Paul does not rebuke
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