Out of Our Minds?

I Corinthians 14:20 Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. 21 In the Law it is written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.” 22 Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers. 23 If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds? 

Paul was addressing several issues in the Corinthian church which were distracting them from the task for which Christ had called them.  They were so busy arguing with one another they had no time for apologetics with unbelievers. They were being so selfish about worship that they were not building each other up.  Often we say that we "don't care what other people think," and often that can be a good thing. But when we are respresenting Christ to a watching world, in some ways it does matter. There is a sense in which the Gospel is foolishness.  But there are many ways we should care what people think, so they will at least stop and take time to listen to what we are saying.  They should not think we are "out of our minds."