Unity, Diversity and Our Identity in Christ
Part 11 of 14
The Holy Spirit provides the church with diverse gifts and abilities. Each gift and each person is important to the whole.
.A Shared Responsibility 1 Cor 12-13.pdf
A Shared Responsibility 1 Cor 12-13.mp3
Unity Deep and Deliberate
Ephesians 4:1-16
A church’s unity grows out of the unity of the Father, the Son and the Spirit. Let’s not allow what God has united to separate.
Paul’s Letter to the Romans
A good toe-nail is not an unsuccessful attempt at a brain: and if it were conscious it would delight in being simply a good toe-nail.
– C. S. Lewis (1898 – 1963),
This evening, we will get together for Week 11 of 12 in our “Make Disciples.” series. Below you will find links to an overview of the full 12 weeks and for the eleventh area on the map, Experiencing God’s Power: Spiritual Gifts.
During the 12 weeks, we are addressing areas on a comprehensive discipleship map. After discussing each area, we will try to establish Milestones that would provide evidence of personal spiritual growth – markers that we work toward.
The Letters of Paul
God builds the church out of a variety of people who have a variety of spiritual gifts. All of them are needed.
We might imagine we have to be very special people to be used in some significant way by the Almighty. If we think so we are mistaken. In this very personal letter we know as 3 John, the elderly apostle reveals that it is a very simple thing to become a fellow worker for the truth.
(And by the way, at the end there is a song performed by two Amish sisters from Northern Indiana who have lately been attending Horizon Central while in Indianapolis. That alone is worth a listen.)
Immaturity can be defined as imperfection, greenness, unpreparedness, inexperience, childishness or ineptitude. In this section, Paul shows us how a church can grow up – how a church can become mature, ripe and fruitful in the deepest spiritual sense.
