Read: I Corinthians 10:12-13
God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. While I find these subjects slightly interesting in a church history and theology kind of way, I couldn't write two hundred words let alone two thousand on either one. There should be no division in the body, but that it's parts should be of equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it. If one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
Perhaps this is why the apostle Paul devoted three chapters of the book of I Corinthians to the subject of spiritual gifts to give us hope. If the Corinthian church was anything like our churches, it was filled with members devaluing their gifts and coveting everyone else's. Paul, writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, determined to set them straight. There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone, it is the same God at work.
God grant me the power to see the needs of those around me. May I touch a hurting heart and rejoice in an achiever's success. Amen.
Jim & Joana Quartey
God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. While I find these subjects slightly interesting in a church history and theology kind of way, I couldn't write two hundred words let alone two thousand on either one. There should be no division in the body, but that it's parts should be of equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it. If one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
Perhaps this is why the apostle Paul devoted three chapters of the book of I Corinthians to the subject of spiritual gifts to give us hope. If the Corinthian church was anything like our churches, it was filled with members devaluing their gifts and coveting everyone else's. Paul, writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, determined to set them straight. There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone, it is the same God at work.
God grant me the power to see the needs of those around me. May I touch a hurting heart and rejoice in an achiever's success. Amen.
Jim & Joana Quartey
