12:1 - Now about the gifts of the Spirit, I do not want you to be uninformed. - Most of us still are. We need to study the Scripture to see what the truth is and then stand on it instead of hiding from the truth in fear we are going to find out we disagree.
12:4-6 - Different kinds of gifts, service and working, but the same Spirit/Lord/God.
12:7 - The gifts of the Spirit are given for the COMMON good. They are not for the individual, but for the body. I wonder what this speaks to those who believe in a personal prayer language as a gift of the Holy Spirit. Would this indicate that the gifts of tongues is something other than that since that would be about the individual and this gift in context would be about the body? Just a thought.
12:13 - For we are all baptized by one Spirit so to form one body - whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free - and we were all given the one spirit to drink. - The key throughout this whole passage is the term ONE.
12:18 - In fact, god has placed the parts in the body , every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.
12:25 - so that there should be NO DIVISION in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.
12:30 - The answer to the questions here is actually given in the Greek text. It says, "No!". All are not given all of those gifts. To judge someone as not Christian or less Christian because they do not have the same gift you have is not theologically right.
12:31 - Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.
Love, Michael
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