Journey

- List as many different spiritual gifts given or implied in these chapters. -- Prophesying, talking in tonques, leading, serving, teaching, showing mercy, healing, helping, providing guidance In your reading, can you identify the source of these gifts? -- "According to the grace given to us", The Holy Spirit

 Scripture Read.  1 Corinthians 12 Thought Applied.  Very similar to Romans 12 1-8.  All of us have an important part to play in the body of Christ.  Many are physical, but many are also gifts from the Spirit. Application Made.  Eagerly desire the greater gifts.  All can do some.  Few can do all.   Response Prayer.

 Scripture Read. Romans 12: 1-8   Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.   2  Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.   Humble Service in the Body of Christ  3  For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.   4  For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function,   5  so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.   6 ...