Paul Pace

Well, we actually are from the same hometown.

We met in Nashville and I was running a bar downtown Nashville and we had this guy, Paul Pace, playing for us one night a week, sometimes twice a week.

Mark and Paul worked together.

Paul was writing for Mark's publishing company.

pretty quick.

You know, you and I are pretty much the same age.

And I notice a lot of the guys and gals born in the 1950s are now swinging back into the marketplace.

In your case, it's arts and entertainment.

You wanna build yourself? Speak in tongues.

And then Paul goes on to say, "But, you know, go for it, guys.

Really go after all the gifts, but make sure that you're doing it for the building of the Church and not for your own ministry." You know, not to build your own platform, but to build the house of God.

And I believe we need both the sword and the trowel, just as Nehemiah's men did.

So last week, um, I talked about this picture that the gifts of the Spirit, and I'm talking about all of them we just saw in those six categories, are like appliances in a household.

They're completely different, and they do different things, and that's what Paul writes to the church in Corinth.

Remember, he wrote to them and he said in chapter 1, "You have all the gifts.

You've got it all." And then he says, "But I need you to remember," in chapter 12, "that all of these gifts are different.