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conversations.value: a title for a book about Seminary, Fuller, Theological with the genre: Christian Books & Bibles, Christian Living
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Discover Your Spiritual Gifts'
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conversations.value: Give me the first five paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: Discover Your Spiritual Gifts
  Although teaching on spiritual gifts is prominent in the New Testament, it is not often taught in churches today. Why do you think this is the case?
  What interests you about these verses? Do you have any of the gifts listed here? If so, which ones? How do you know?
  The 1970s brought widespread interest in moving beyond creeds and theologies with regard to the Holy Spirit. Why do you think this movement ignited at that particular time? What were people looking for?
  One facet of this new experience with the Holy Spirit was the re-discovery of spiritual gifts. What does the word "rediscovery" signify? What are some examples of this type of rediscovery in your own life even if you are born after the 1970s?
  During the birth of the classical Pentecostal movement in the early 1900s, Pentecostal leaders wanted to influence major Christian denominations from within but found their movement incompatible with mainline American churches. Why do you think this was the case?
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conversations.value: Give me two more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Read 1 Corinthians 12:1-13. What did Paul mean in verse 1 when he wrote, "Concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant"? What does Paul say in verse 12 about how we as the Church should function in our gifts?
  Do you believe that all spiritual gifts are created equal? Why or why not? Ponder this for a moment. Why might someone take the opposite view?
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conversations.value: Miracles: The gift of miracles is the special ability that God gives to certain members of the Body of Christ to serve as human intermediaries through whom it pleases God to perform powerful acts that are perceived by observers to have altered the ordinary course of nature (see Acts 9:36-42; 19:11-20; 20:7-12; Rom. 15:18-19; 1 Cor. 12:10,28; 2 Cor. 12:12).
  Prophecy: The gift of prophecy is the special ability that God gives to certain members of the Body of Christ to receive and communicate an immediate message of God to His people through a divinely anointed utterance (see Luke 7:26; Acts 15:32; 21:9-11; Rom. 12:6; 1 Cor. 12:10,28; Eph. 4:11-13).
  Teaching: The gift of teaching is the special ability that God gives to certain members of the Body of Christ to communicate information relevant to the health and ministry of the Body and its members in such a way that others will learn (see Acts 18:24-28; 20:20-21; Rom. 12:7; 1 Cor. 12:28; Eph. 4:11-13).
  Tongues: The gift of tongues is the special ability that God gives to certain members of the Body of Christ (1) to speak to God in a language they have never learned and/or (2) to receive and communicate an immediate message from God to His people through a divinely anointed utterance in a language they have never learned (see Mark 16:17; Acts 2:1-13; 10:44-46; 19:1-7; 1 Cor. 12:10,28; 14:13-19).
  Voluntary Poverty: The gift of voluntary poverty is the special ability that God gives to certain members of the Body of Christ to renounce material comfort and luxury and adopt a personal lifestyle equivalent to those living at the poverty level in a given society in order to serve God more effectively (see Acts 2:44-45; 4:34-37; 1 Cor. 13:1-3; 2 Cor. 6:10; 8:9).