1 Corinthians 12:4-6
There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.
1 Corinthians 12:12-14
Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
1 Corinthians 12:15
Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body.
1 Corinthians 12:21-22
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
1. Repentance –
a. Humility vs. Pride
b. Purity vs. Shame
“but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.” Romans 8:13
2. Faith in God’s Word – He never lies
Numbers 23:19 AMP
God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
3. Self-Control -
Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
4. Embrace your identity as an essential part of the body of Christ
1 Corinthians 12:15
“Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body.”
5. Pay the price to connect with the body in Skyline.
1 Corinthians 12:21
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!”
a. One on one
b. Groups
c. Ministry