Acts 1:4-5; 1 Corinthians 12:12-14
Paul uses the example of our physical body and how its parts work together to help us understand that all members of the Body of Christ (believers) draw on and function under one Spirit. "For in one Spirit we were baptized into one Body--Jews or Greeks, slaves or free--and all were made to drink of one Spirit" (vs. 13).
So what does this passage show us about the Holy Spirit? What about how we are to function working and serving together? Tami W.
I see two things here, looking at both passages, and they both have to do with being, "Lone Ranger" Christians.
From the Acts passage, I take it that we are not to rush ahead of the Spirit, but wait for Him. However good our intentions or our motivation, we can do nothing in our own strength. We are powerless in our Christian lives without Him.
Again, from the Corinthians passage, we are part of a body; we are not independent. We do not need to feel that we have to, or indeed can do, everything by ourselves. We can accomplish nothing usefull aside from the calling of the Spirit. We work with one another in the Body of Christ, each according to his own gifts, given according to the Father's will.
This passage shows us as believers we will be baptised in the Spirit. The first Christians were told to wait for the Spirit to come. I think if we all seek to walk in the Spirit the Church will be like a well oiled machine, each doing its part in love.
I feel for unity to be in the body of Christ, the church, we are to live in the Spirit and wait for His direction. Each of us according to our gifts in Him, we will go forward with God's guardance and blessing. The fruits of the Spirit will come forth for the nonchristians and christians to be seen without words on our part. If we do not know what our gifts are then it is our responsibility to learn what they are.
what you spoke of is so true and we as christians should remember it