A Quote on Spiritual Gifts

Gordon Fee writes in response to 1 Corinthians 12:1-3 in his commentary on the same book:

"The presence of the Spirit in power and gifts makes it easy for God's people to think of the power and gifts as the real evidence of the Spirit's presence. Not so for Paul. The ultimate criterion of the Spirit's activity is the exaltation of Jesus as Lord. Whatever takes away from that, even if they be legitimate expressions of the Spirit, begins to move away from Christ to a more pagan fascination with spiritual activity as an end in itself."

-The Fist Epistle to the Corinthians, p. 582.