Daily Readings (Page 53)

Paul described the nature of agape love in the Greek original using 15 verbs (most English translations render them as adjectives). How does each of them speak into the life of the Corinthian church and for us today?

Why is agape love the “most excellent way” (12:31b)? What is the relationship between agape love and spiritual gifts?

How does this verse connect the verses which come before and after it?

What is the necessity of this exhortation?

In what way does God arrange the different parts of the human body? Why does He arrange them in that way?

How can we relate the mutual dependence between various parts of the human body with the various members of Christ’s body?

Paul draws an analogy between the members of Christ’s body and the human body. In so doing, what is Paul teaching us?

What is the Holy Spirit’s role concerning the church?

What does Paul compare Christ’s spiritual body, the church, with?

Who determines the distribution of spiritual gifts?