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The Gifts of the Spirit, Part 1 – YouTube

Show Notes:

By one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body – the Body of Christ.  To function as the Bible teaches the Body of Christ to function, we need a shift in our thinking. We are to be joined to one another and immersed into relationship.  This requires a burial to self as we are interconnected and intertwined.  We are dependent on one another to fitly frame together until the whole Body manifests Christ. 

The giftings of the Sprit are all to accomplish one thing:  The work of God. The work of God is the making of disciples. We are to spread the message of the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

We are baptized by one Spirit into the Body of Christ with the duty of making disciples for Christ, and the gifts of the Spirit equip us to do exactly that. We need the gifts of the Spirit in full operation while we tell others about Jesus Christ.

The gifts of the Spirit empower us to accomplish the work of God.