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Christ's Spiritual Gifts 95
Jealousy is not permitted in the Household Body. A Christian should not be proud because he or she possesses a gift that someone else does not. Nor should he or she become envious when another receives a sought-after talent. "We have different gifts according to the grace given us"1 writes Paul. God gives the gifts and he knows best. Michael Green writes, "While some of us might in all humility be able to see ourselves as hands and feet or yet more modestly as fingers and toes of a small local congregational body, any individual who claimed to be a foot of the church might rightly be regarded as too big for his boots!"
The various parts of the human body need one another and are intended to work together. "The eye cannot say to the hand, 'I don't need you!'"2 Imagine you are strolling along the road and a snarling dog races up behind you. Your ears hear the growling first and immediately flash a message to your brain. Your arm muscles react instantaneously and pull your hand to safety! In this way, your body protects your fragile fingers from the dog's snarling jaws.
Describe the personality of your household body.
1 Romans 12.6. 2 1 Corinthians 12.21
"Christ's Spiritual Gifts to the household Body."
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