The Greatest Gift is Love

This teaching offers a comprehensive and balanced understanding of spiritual gifts, especially prophecy, grounding them firmly in love and the purpose of building up the Church. It encourages believers to desire gifts, use them with faith, and always prioritize love as the highest virtue. The Church and its gifts are presented as God’s loving provision to empower believers to serve one another and glorify God together.

Sermon Highlights:

* Spiritual gifts are diverse manifestations of the Holy Spirit given to believers for the common good of the Church.

* The gift of prophecy serves to edify, exhort, and comfort believers, not merely predict the future.

* Faith activates the power of spiritual gifts; hearing and receiving God’s Word is essential.

* Love is the supreme gift and the true measure of all spiritual gifts.

* Motives for desiring and using gifts must be pure—centered on love, not personal recognition.

* The Church functions as a unified body with different members and gifts, all essential and interdependent.

* Spiritual gifts require practice and faith to be effectively used.

* Prophecy and other gifts can manifest in various forms, including spontaneous messages and formal teaching.

* The five-fold ministry is part of God’s design to equip the Church in love.

About the Pastor

💞Richard and Jacqui Waller are the lead pastors of Tree of Life Church, Guildford. Having encountered the grace and healing power of God as young Christians, they are passionate about every believer knowing about God's unconditional, unending love and His power to lift you out of any pit you might find yourself in.