The Corinthian Complex – Exercise Gifts with Gospel Purpose1 Corinthians 14 | September 28, 2025Chris Richards | Steel City Church⸻In week four of our Corinthian Complex series, Chris Richards leads us through 1 Corinthians 14, where Paul addresses a church overflowing with zeal but lacking order. The Corinthian believers were exercising their spiritual gifts — especially tongues — without love, clarity, or unity. Instead of edification there was confusion; instead of glorifying God there was self-promotion.Chris calls us to recover Paul’s vision: pursue love, desire spiritual gifts, and use them with Gospel purpose. In particular, we’re urged to desire prophecy — not as a status symbol but as Spirit-empowered speech marked by pastoral insight, comfort, challenge, and consolation that builds up the body of Christ.This message highlights: • 🌟 Spiritual gifts are given for God’s glory, not ours • 🏗 Spiritual gifts are meant to build up the church, not divide it • 🌍 Spiritual gifts are a witness to the disconnected, showing that “God is among you”We’re invited to be a “desiring & discerning” church — asking the Holy Spirit to grant us gifts, especially prophecy, so we can speak truth in love and reflect Christ to one another and the world.