Grace Gifts Given to Us

Thursday, May 7, 2015
Romans 12:1-8 KJV

1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. 3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think [of himself] more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. 4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: 5 So we, [being] many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. 6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of faith; 7 Or ministry, [let us wait] on [our] ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; 8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, [let him do it] with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) What does the Apostle Paul implore his readers to do with their bodies? Why? (v.1)
2) What does Paul tell the reader to refrain from doing? (v.2a)
3) What does the apostle tell us to do with our minds? Why? (v.2b-2c)
4) What else our we to do and refrain from doing and why? (v.3)
5) What are we members of and how does that affect our relationship with other members? (v.4-5)
6) What does the apostle write concerning the gifts given to each member and how they are to be used? (v.6-8)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
7) What is your spiritual gift and how do you use it to edify the body of Christ?

LIFE LESSONS
8) Every believer is a member of the body of Christ and has been given gifts to build up the body.