One reason we hear about biblical illiteracy so much is because the people who champion it are the ones who have
the spiritual gifts of teaching, preaching, and knowledge.
Pastors often do have
spiritual gifts of teaching and evangelism, which is why they often berate others for not studying or evangelizing more.
Not exact matches
For the consecrated life (as John Paul II
taught in the 1996 apostolic exhortation Vita Consecrata) is the
spiritual engine
of the Church, in which the energies
of evangelism are refined and shared in a great exchange
of gifts by which the entire Church, the bride
of Christ, strives for union with her divine spouse.
The
teaching that men are to be the «
spiritual leaders»
of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many
of my
gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «
spiritual leader»!)
Some
of the signs
of God's work which the Bible discusses are exercising
spiritual gifts, obeying Christ's
teachings, displaying the fruit
of the Spirit and receiving answers to prayer.
What we have subsequently discovered is that he lived and
taught the non-appropriation
of any goods, be they material,
spiritual or intellectual: we are to store up nothing for ourselves, but we can and should freely and gratefully use God's
gifts in a non-possessive way for the benefit
of others.
Related to the idea that faith is not a work is the twin
teaching that faith is not a
gift from God (And no... I am not referring to the
spiritual gift of faith... that is different).
Spiritual gifts such as healing and
teaching are examples
of religious factors; age, social position, ethics, and background are qualifications
of a nonreligious character.
It may be insight into the divine mysteries, the nature
of Ultimate Reality, and
of the laws governing the existence
of the cosmos,
of society, and
of individual lives; or the
gift of restoring into wholeness broken physical or
spiritual health; or the ability to develop, by
teaching and in other ways, the hidden possibilities in one's fellow men, and to give direction and purpose to their lives.
We may arrange «a group
of professing believers in Jesus who have been baptized and have organized themselves under the leadership
of elders and deacons for the purpose
of carrying out the Great Commission; for conducting the ordinances
of baptism and the Lord's Supper; for building up
of the Body through the worship
of God, the fellowship
of believers, the
teaching of the Word, and the exercise
of spiritual gifts» and still not be receiving the presence
of Christ.
Less miraculous
spiritual gifts, like the
gifts of teaching or administration, are largely ignored.
I have a really hard time buying into the concept that my
spiritual gifts are being wasted if I am not plugged into program X, Y, Z «
teaching» or «adminstering» or «encouraging» for the benefit
of a local church.
And I tell you, if some man comes to my congregation, needing everything
spiritual and having nothing
of the same; and should a woman be present who is
gifted by the Holy Spirit to
teach, then she will be allowed to
teach.
Have we overemphasised the Pauline
teaching on each person being a part
of the Body
of Christ, and the diversity
of the
spiritual gifts, so that UK Christians now simply pick their
gift from the list, get on with it and leave it at that?
Which when it comes to his ecclesia Jesus clearly
taught against hierarchy, position titles, and using
spiritual gifts to make money his
teaching on those topics was the antithesis
of power and commercialization
of relationship with God.
What do you think about the Scriptures in 1 corinthians where it talks about their being a diversity
of spiritual gifts, and that not everyone will recieve the
gift of prophecy, or the
gift of speaking in tongues, or the
gift of teaching, but God distributes these
gifts as He wills.
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