Jesus Famous With Nate Holdridge

  “Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.” (1 Corinthians 14:1, ESV) Who doesn’t love a good chase scene? It seems each generation of movie directors ups the previous one with grander and longer and edgier chase scenes than ever before. A good chase scene is ragged and undeterred. There is no quit. Even when you think the hunt is over, it reinvents itself. The pursuit is on. Paul told us to pursue love, which means to chase down or, taken literally, persecute love. We are to follow love hard, to get after it, to make it a chief aim of life. According to Paul, one way to pursue love is to desire spiritual gifts, for with them we can love more effectively than before. One great spiritual gift, useful for loving others, is the gift of prophecy, so Paul said we should especially desire it. He said we should earnestly want to prophesy. But what is the gift of prophecy, and why should we want it? I don’t know many believers who would want to live like the Old Test