Paul's Corinthians: Continuing Our Spiritual Journey

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Continuing our spiritual journey in chapter five, we discuss spiritual gifts; or as creation gifts as the author calls them. Here Paul writes in Corinthians about how we as Christians are made uniquely but of the same body that is on the same mission and journey. Paul emphasizes the interdependence of the individual members of the community of faith (Mulholland, 50). So in short, we are only complete and whole when we are in community with the rest of the body; which is relationships with others. The author goes on to discuss that there are many thousands of different personality fluctuations that make each person in this world unique and further discusses our own acceptance of each one as part of Christ’s body, and our spiritual wholeness

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