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Think Like a Child

I'm teaching through 1 Corinthians for B H Carroll Theological Institute at Legacy, and last night we were supposed to cover 1 Corinthians 13 . If you remember, Paul explains that love is supreme to any claim to spiritual giftedness. One of the ways he did that was to write that when he was a child he talked like a child, he thought like a child, and he reasoned like a child. (v. 11) I had kept a note from Storey when she was 7 with my notes to illustrate child-like reasoning. Check out the scanned note attached here. That IS an example of both child-like spelling AND reasoning. Cute, but inaccurate. Cherished by a Dad, but her reasoning would never win a national mock trial tournament. Paul went on to say that now that he was a man he put away childish things like public displays of ecstatic utterances to prove one's spirituality. (v. 11, 12) He had picked up the adult-like work of love, which was not as cute, but made a difference in the lives of those he served. It was g