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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Oklahoma, City, Wheaton with the genre: Christian Books & Bibles, Protestantism?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'The Beginner's Guide to Spiritual Gifts'
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conversations.value: Provide the first five paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: The Beginner's Guide to Spiritual Gifts
  Scientists will have a rare chance next week to study a recently discovered comet that is coming within the "extremely" close range of 3 million miles.... Dr. Gerry Neugebauer, principal U.S. investigator on the international Infrared Astronomical Satellite Project (IRAS) said, "... It was sheer good luck we happened to be looking where the comet was passing."
  The Lord spoke to me in a dream last night and said that revival will not begin immediately as we had thought. God will withhold His move upon this city until the appointed time and season. And when it comes it will not be a day late.
  This was not good news to those who had been fasting, many on water only, for the last 21 days. But Bob wasn't finished:
  God is going to send yet another sign. There will be a three-month drought in the natural over this city, even as there will be a three-month drought in the Spirit. But on August 23, it will rain as a sign to you that in God's time He will send the rain of the Spirit even as He has promised.
  The drought began at the end of June and extended into the first week of October, just as Bob said it would. In fact, those three months in 1983 proved to be the second driest summer in Kansas City in more than 100 years But what about August 23? I was hoping you hadn't forgotten.
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conversations.value: Provide another paragraph.
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conversations.value: Some may wonder how mysteries that are not understood even by the speaker can edify. The answer lies in verses 14-15. As Gordon Fee pointed out:
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conversations.value: Provide the last five paragraphs.
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conversations.value: When someone in ministry falls, people often respond in one of two ways. Some experience excessive bitterness, refuse to forgive, and vow never to trust religious leaders again. This may be an indication that they, too, highly elevated the individual, perhaps even thinking him or her to be beyond the reach of sin. Or perhaps they had placed a faith in this person that should be reserved for the Lord Jesus Christ alone.
  Both of these options are understandable, but wrong. We should neither become cynical of the ministry nor give way to unholy sympathy. There is a better, more biblical approach. Perhaps it would be best if I simply set forth three key principles that I believe ought to govern how we think and respond when a trusted and beloved brother or sister in the faith falls.
  First, it is only natural that we feel both appreciation and embarrassment. Those whose lives have been positively impacted by someone's ministry should continue to affirm it and resist any temptation to think it was spurious or that its benefits are now somehow tainted or soiled. On the other hand, there is good reason to feel a sense of shame for what occurred, for such events give cause to the world to mock the gospel we proclaim and hold dear.
  Second, scandalous sin in a person's life does not necessarily invalidate what was believed to have been beneficial in his or her ministry. It may, but it need not. Certainly, the case of someone such as Judas Iscariot must be considered. The horrid nature of his betrayal of Jesus exposed the hypocritical and false commitment of his earlier life and "friendship" with our Lord. But others in the Bible have fallen without calling into question the spiritual authenticity of their faith or ministry. One thinks immediately of Samson, David, Peter and Mark, just to mention a few of the more prominent cases. Samson's immoral tryst with Delilah; David's adultery with Bathsheba and complicity in the murder of Uriah; Peter's cowardly, public denial of Jesus; and Mark's abandonment of the apostle Paul, did not corrupt the fruit of their labors.
  Third, moral failure does not mean that the prophetic promises given through the person are invalid. Such prophecies must be judged and weighed as the Scriptures instruct. Whether or not they are fulfilled is unrelated to the fact that the one who spoke them sinned subsequent to their delivery. The psalms that King David wrote prior to his adulterous relationship with Bathsheba did not suddenly lose their value or cease to be edifying to the people of God after he sinned.