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Worship One, Love All Others
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Ken Williams
We know our worship of God is legit when his love flows from
us to all others. He gives each of us spiritual gifts for
the common good of his church. If we attempt to place personal
identity above the common good we will misuse God’s
spiritual gifts and work against unity. Unity is different
than uniformity. God gives a variety of spiritual gifts to
members to make one body, the church. Our unity is known when
a group of individuals, each given spiritual gifts, surrender
their will to God’s to serve for the common good. As
with God, Father/Son/Holy Spirit, there is oneness and variety.
In our Western culture we admire individuality. People look
for their “15 minutes” of fame. This would seem
to justify our existence and give us “identity”.
The apostle Paul would have thought that we sell out too cheap
in the Western world. We only seek 15 minutes of fame. In
I Corinthians 12:1-13 the apostle explained how we can be
what he created us to be and enjoy this forever in the love
and harmony of Christ’s church. This works against our
natural instincts but we must learn to place the common good
of others above our own self interest and in this we gain
the personal identity we want. (I Corinthians 12:1-13)
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