How can faith be
a gift given to believers when faith supports the belief?
Not exact matches
Faith is a
gift of God
given to believers.
Moreover, God, who alone sees all things and what is necessary, treats us as the unique individuals He created us
to be; not a «one size fits all» approach, and He answers prayers and
gives gifts on that basis, not simply on whether or not they are a
believer.
They needed
to be among the assembly yesterday of about 3000
believers in three different services that heard the message of the cross
given and the simple message of the
gift of eternal life by believing in the one that was nailed
to the cross for our sins.
It is the Biblical notion that miracles have ceased
to be normal... This is not
to say that God has stopped performing miracles, or that the Holy Spirit has stopped working, but only that the Apostolic miracles such as speaking in tongues, prophecy / revelation, and healings have ceased as a normative
gift to individual
believers: 1) The Holy Spirit's purpose in imparting the «sign
gifts,» has expired 2) The sign
gifts were
given exclusively
to the original Twelve Apostles, so that the sign
gifts and Apostleship are inextricably linked 3) The
gift of Apostleship no longer exists
We are all part of that group of
believers to whom He
gives his
gifts and He
gives them graciously and liberally.
It's not just on a Sunday morning, let also remember that
gifts were
given out
to all
believers who received Jesus Christ as their primary Savior.the Bible did not say male only» but all who believe that he Christ Jesus is the son of God.
Dear Adrian, I get where your coming from but I disagree that If a Christian
gives a blessing
to a non
believer it has nill effect when I worked for a short time on a check out in a supermarket I bade them farewell with a blessing, the choice was theirs
to receive the
gift and open it.
According
to Christians for Biblical Equality, egalitarianism holds that «all
believers — without regard
to gender, ethnicity or class — must exercise their God -
given gifts with equal authority and equal responsibility in church, home and world.»
But in airing our grievances, even with the best of intentions, has the next generation of
believers forgotten about the beautiful
gifts God has
given to us in Christian community?