Slide 1
Three Categories of Gifts:
Spiritual Gifts
I Corinthians 12:8-10
Personal (individual) gifts that every Believer can possess.
Major operation in context of ministry/service to others.
Gifts of Grace
I Corinthians 12:27-31, Romans 12:3-9
Personal (individual) gifts that many believers are skilled, graced, and/or anointed to have and release in service to others.
Five-Fold Ministry Gifts
Ephesians 4:7-16
God-given offices of church/kingdom leadership.
These gifts are actual persons set in place to bring the saints into maturity in local churches and apostolic spheres.
Speaker notes:
Review the major NT passages that reference gifts, graces, and callings/offices. Briefly identify distinctions and clarify focus for this series on the 9 spiritual gifts given in Paul’s Corinthian epistle.
Slide 2
Spiritual Understanding:
The HS is an intelligent, willful member of the Godhead, whom we must work with and follow just as the disciples worked with and followed Jesus (Mark 16:20).
The HS desires to work in and through us (Ephesians 1:19, 3:7; Col. 1:29; Hebrews 13:21); the Fruit of the Spirit & the Gifts of the Spirit are two manifestations of this truth:
Fruit of the Spirit – personal impact, character development, inward purifying of motivation and heart attitudes (Gal. 5:22-25; Ephesians 5:9-10)
Gifts of the Spirit – corporate impact, service/ministry development, outward manifestation of God’s heart and attitude (1 Corinthians 12:7; 14:12).
Speaker notes:
Emphasis on being led by and used by the Spirit; we must yield our members as instruments unto God (Romans 6:13; 12:1). The Holy Spirit has an objective in bringing the body of Christ to maturity and seeks to use members of the body to edify other members of the body (Ephesians 4:13-16)