In the exercise of gifts, what matters most to the Lord is not the gift itself but the attitude of the gifted.
The use of individual gifts is not the focus, rather it is the healthy functioning of a family of faith.
Biblical love is both attractive and offensive; it embraces and shuns; it covers and uncovers; it accepts and intrudes; it is not what we think!
Love, rightly understood and rightly applied, is the ingredient that binds our gifts together and makes for a unified whole, but love misunderstood is disastrous.