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January 2009 
Greatest Gift Remix
Posted on Apr 28th, 2008
by 
KevinBeck
KevinBeck
Last week I published a new article on the Presence site called 1Corinthians 13: The Greatest Gift Remix. It's a reworking of Paul's impassioned plea to his readers to renounce their pride and practice love. Understanding there is a unique context there, I take Paul's text and put it in a contemporary setting. It goes like this.
Y’all want to go viral with the next big thing. You’re uploading the monuments to yourself onto YouTube. You’re hoping that a publisher discovers the genius of your manuscript. You’ve been working on the best damn praise band in the land.
That’s all cool. You’re striving for great gifts. Yet I will show you a still more excellent way.
If my album goes platinum, but don’t have love, I’m an out of tune guitar or a clanging cymbal.
If I’m the smartest guy in the room, and understand all mysteries and have all knowledge, but don’t have love, I’m a big zero.
If I believe all of the ‘right doctrines’ and can recite entire books of the Bible; if I’m the only person in history who has figured out the difference between homousia and homoiousia, but don’t have love, what good is it?
Y’all want to go viral with the next big thing. You’re uploading the monuments to yourself onto YouTube. You’re hoping that a publisher discovers the genius of your manuscript. You’ve been working on the best damn praise band in the land.
That’s all cool. You’re striving for great gifts. Yet I will show you a still more excellent way.
If my album goes platinum, but don’t have love, I’m an out of tune guitar or a clanging cymbal.
If I’m the smartest guy in the room, and understand all mysteries and have all knowledge, but don’t have love, I’m a big zero.
If I believe all of the ‘right doctrines’ and can recite entire books of the Bible; if I’m the only person in history who has figured out the difference between homousia and homoiousia, but don’t have love, what good is it?
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