28 March 2005

Diakonia

There are different kinds of service, but we have the same LORD-1Corinthians 12:5

Before reading this tonight, I have always thought why do some people say "Spiritual Gifts are those that are described in 1 Corinthians 12, Romans 12 and Ephesians 4" Yet others 'add' extras, "You have the gift of music", "Your gifting is definetly tech stuff" etc. If you have the same question as I did, friends, you have an answer.

Diakonia is the greek word for service. 1 Corinthians 12:5 says there are different kinds of serivce. The greek definition of diakonia is ministry (heres where your deliverance, technology, music/worship, intersession etc 'gifts' come in), distrabution, helps, mission, preparations for the upcoming, performing (worship leading, preaching etc), tasks, works, office and relief.

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