An Authentic Calling: Representing Christ and His Kingdom through the Church

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An Authent i c Ca l l i ng: Represent i ng Chr i s t and Hi s Ki ngdom through the Chur ch

body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. [13] For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body – Jews or Greeks, slaves or free – and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

b. Matt. 28.10; Mark 16.16

4. Playing my role in the body: the gifts of the Spirit

a. Rom. 12.3-6 (ESV) – For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. [4] For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, [5] so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. [6] Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith.

b. 1 Pet. 4.10-11

c. Eph. 4.9-16

d. 1 Cor. 12.1-27

5. What is one’s responsibility once joined to and accepted within the body? Participation, identification with, and association in worship, fellowship, mission

a. Acts 2.42-47

b. John 13.34-35