BUILDING ONENESS - 1 Corinthians 14:12b-20 by Rev. Nolan Astley
1 Corinthians 14:12b–20
    Since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.
    13Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray for the power to interpret. 14For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful. 15What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also. 16Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say “Amen” to your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying? 17For you may be giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not being built up. 18I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you. 19Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
    20Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.