This week, I am going to attempt to make the blog a little more interactive.  Less like my general musings and more of a forum for discussion.  

The gifts of wisdom and knowledge seem to be a couplet.  It is almost as if one takes knowledge of scripture and gleans the wisdom of the Lord from it. How can one use the gift of knowledge without wisdom? The definition of the two from our notes outline was: "Knowledge is an awareness of facts and wisdom is an ability to use those facts to accomplish good goals".  Looking at that, one might assume that wisdom is the completion of knowledge.  If this were so, it would seem that the gift of wisdom would always be granted where the gift of knowledge has been bestowed, because spiritual gifts are used to build up the church.  How can the body of Christ be strengthened if an individual has only the gift of knowledge, which seems to only benefit the individual? Then again, 1 Corinthians 14 says that the gift of tongues edifies the individual, while the gift of prophecy is beneficial to the church as a whole.  

So, do you think the gift of knowledge comes independently of wisdom (note the definition above)? It poses an interesting question, because if you say yes, then you are obligated to say how the gift is beneficial to the church, because the definition says that wisdom is the use of facts for the accomplishment of goals.  There is another twist to this: if knowing the scriptures convicts the heart of a Christian than knowledge could be a spiritual gift independent of wisdom, because the conviction would prompt the individual to action which would ultimately impact the church.  These are just a few things to think about!

~Bonnie