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Equipping
the Saints How the Body Works - Unity in Diversity How the Body Works - A Look at the Gifts How the Body Works - Love is the Best |
3.Common
Good Now
we begin to come to the focus of Paul's view of the gifts, given by God,
the manifestation of the Spirit for the "common good".
There is no room for selfishness in the Body of Christ.
As Richard Joyner has observed, "there has been a
fundamental deception promulgated throughout the Body of Christ which
has tried to focus our attention on who we are in Christ instead of who
He is in us. We do need to
know who we are in Him. But when that becomes our emphasis, we will
never know who He has called us to be.
Seeing ourselves does not change us.
It is by beholding His glory that we are changed into His image,
which is the image the church is called to bear." (Richard
Joyner - The Harvest, pg. 63) Who
is Jesus in you? Who are
you in Jesus? |