Teachers – Students
Gifted for the life of the community
DIFFERENT GIFTS
DIFFERENT WORK A reading from Paul’s letter to the Ephesians Each one of us, however, has been given his own share of grace, given as Christ allotted it… And to some, his gift was that they should be apostles; to some, prophets; to some evangelists, to some pastors and teachers; so that the saints together make a unity in the work of service, building up the body of Christ. In this way we are all to come to unity in our faith and in our knowledge of the Son of God, until we become the perfect One, fully mature with the fullness of Christ himself. Ephesians:11-13.
IGNITING THE FIRE WITHIN
From Like Water for Chocolate What follows is an incident in the novel when Doctor John shows Tita an experiment… “While phosphorous doesn’t combine with oxygen to burn at ordinary temperatures, it does burst into flame very rapidly at an elevated temperature; Watch…..” The doctor placed a small amount of phosphorous in a tube that was closed at one end and full of mercury. He melted the phosphorus by holding the tube over the flame of a candle. Then using a small bell jar containing oxygen, he transferred the gas to the jar, very, very, slowly. When the oxygen reached the top of the jar, where it encountered the melted phosphorus, an explosion occurred, brilliant, instantaneous, like a flash of lightning.
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22 |