• What is your background or experience with the gifts of the Spirit?
• Why does Paul create so many qualifications and instructions for speaking in tongues?
• What is prophecy and how is it meant to be used in the church?
• Have you ever experienced the gift of prophecy from another person, what was that experience like?W
• What in your mind does it look like to be a church that is filled with the Holy Spirit? How would that shape your heart, approach towards church, and experience when we are gathered together?
• When have you seen someone prove that love is more important than talent or giftedness?
• Why does Paul use “patience” as the first word to describe love?
• What are some of the ways people in the church of Corinth had failed to love?
• What does it mean that love “bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things”?
• Finish by considering how Jesus demonstrates love during this moment in his ministry: Mark 1:21-35. Read it 2x to get a good grasp of the passage. Then share what you notice about Jesus’ love.