Outline Paul's teaching on spiritual gifts
- There are varieties of gifts, but the same spirit.
- There
are varieties of service but the same Lord. - To each is given the
manifestation of the spirit for the common good. - One is given, through the
spirit, the utterance of wisdom. - To another, the utterance of knowledge; to
another, faith. - To another, gifts of healing; to another, the working of
miracles. - To another, prophesy; to another,, the ability to distinguish
between spirits. - To another, various kinds of tongues; to another, the
interpretation of tongues. - All these are inspired by one and the same
spirit. - Just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members
of the body are one, so it is with Christ. - By one spirit, we were all
baptised into one body. - Jews or Greeks, slaves or free, all were made to
drink of one spirit. - The body consists of many members/parts, yet one
body. - The foot cannot say I am an eye, so I don’t belong to the body.
- Nor can the ear I am not the eye, I don’t belong to the body.
- The eye
cannot say to the hand, nor the head to the feet, I have no need of you. - On the contrary, the parts of the body which seem weaker are indispensable.
- Those parts of the body we consider less honourable we invest with the
greatest honour. - If one member suffers, all suffer together.
- If one
member is honoured, all rejoice together. - You are the body of Christ and,
individually, members of it. - God has appointed to the Church – apostles,
prophets, workers of miracles, healers, helpers, administrators, speakers in
various kinds of tongues.
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