Spiritual Gifts: Text, Purpose, and Current Questions

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Objective: Analyse the relevant text and explain the case that spiritual gifts served the common good and orderly edification; claims about their continuation or cessation require separate argument.

Read: 1 Corinthians 12:1-14:40

Opening: Ask one observation question before explaining the lesson.

Say:

1 Corinthians 12-14 describes diverse spiritual gifts given for the common good and regulates their use for orderly edification.
Claims about whether miraculous gifts continue today require an argument beyond merely observing that gifts existed in Corinth.
Within this curriculum framework, miraculous confirmatory gifts are understood as having served the apostolic-era purpose of confirming the revealed word and are not possessed by individuals today.

Ask:

What does the text directly say?
What conclusion requires interpretation or synthesis?
What should we avoid overstating?
What is one faithful response?

Do: Complete Spiritual Gifts: Text, Purpose, and Current Questions Claim Audit.

Close: Restate the big idea, name one faithful response, and pray.

Materials: Bible; Spiritual Gifts: Text, Purpose, and Current Questions Claim Audit

Standard outline · 35 minutes

4 minConnect. Locate the lesson within Cycle 2 and activate prior knowledge.
4 minContext. Identify genre, audience, setting, and immediate context before making claims.
9 minRead and observe. Read selected portions of Acts 1:8; 8:4-40; 13:1-3 and identify direct observations. Ask: What does the passage directly say?
7 minDiscuss. Test the big idea against the evidence and identify interpretive limits. Ask: What conclusion can we support from those observations? Where could someone overstate or misapply this passage?
7 minActivity. Complete the primary evidence-based activity. Activity: Read and Notice: Spiritual Gifts: Text, Purpose, and Current Questions. Printable: T3-L09-P01-mission-from-jerusalem-to-the-nations-claim-audit.
4 minRespond. Name one faithful response and pray. Ask: What faithful response fits the text?

Activity details

Read and Notice: Spiritual Gifts: Text, Purpose, and Current Questions · 10 min

Materials: Mission from Jerusalem to the Nations Claim Audit; Bible; Pens or pencils

Read or retell 1 Corinthians 12:1-14:40 in context.
Name two details the text directly states.
Restate the big idea in your own words.

Low-resource option: Draw the categories on blank paper or complete verbally.

Closing

Memory verse: 1 Corinthians 12:1-14:40

Prayer: Thank God for what the passage shows and ask for wisdom to respond faithfully.

Take-home line: Spiritual gifts served the common good and orderly edification; claims about their continuation or cessation require separate argument.