Sharing Love in the Body
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What’s the relationship between love and gifts?
1 Corinthians focuses on gifts as helping with revelation and teaching
overall focusing on taking the chaos out of it
The Body’s greatness is love not gifts.
The Body’s greatness is love not gifts.
Lists of gifts - Romans 12 , 1 Peter 4 , 1 John
If I do things to be seen as important or necessary
If I do things to gain a friendship
If I do things to be “spiritual”
it profits me nothing - in most other types of community this would profit both the community and person something
it also implies that everything claimed as “Spirit” is not necessarily “Spirit”
The Body’s love for one another comes from God and slows us down to care for one another.
The Body’s love for one another comes from God and slows us down to care for one another.
How can we practice unconditional love really?
Ephesians 1 , Galatians 5
The emphasis in this description is on why love is not competitive and is unconditional
Love, however, is not just “letting you be you” or “do nothing that feels hurtful”
Helicopter parenting
The Body’s maturity is using God’s revelation in love to know and bless one another.
The Body’s maturity is using God’s revelation in love to know and bless one another.
“Mysteries”
1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.
2 You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led.
2 For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit.
3 On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation.
20 Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
Parenting
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should
Having a child
What are the skills a child needs to have in order to be successful? Know God and know themselves.
There needs to non-competitive purposes to bless one another and there needs to be order.
They need to know and want to love others.
To be a Scripture-focused family that disciples Christians in grace and truth in order to impact the community for the gospel of Christ.
To be a Scripture-focused family that disciples Christians in grace and truth in order to impact the community for the gospel of Christ.
Gospel Driven Biblical Discipleship Family Care Grace Giving
Gospel Driven Biblical Discipleship Family Care Grace Giving