Grace Communion Melbourne Fellowship Group
Melbourne, Florida

Dear Fellowship Group

 Today, we will look at some passages chosen from select letters, called the epistles, to aid our season of Epiphany. In fact, this year we will be setting aside the next six Sundays in Epiphany to visit passages in 1 Corinthians. In these passages, we are concerned to see how God continues to work in His church. Since God is still at work in the church for the sake of the world, we can gain epiphanies about who He is and what He is doing by revisiting some key passages of Scripture written to some of the early churches. This doesn’t mean that everything that takes place in a church can serve as an epiphany of who God is. But those events and lessons involving the early church that God chose to include in the canon of Scripture, can be relied on to provide a trustworthy witness of who God is as He is revealed in His works by the Spirit in the church.

Your Pastor and Friend,

Steve Schantz

1 Corinthians 12:1-11 NIV

Concerning Spiritual Gifts

12 Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. ² You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. ³ Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit. ⁴ There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. ⁵ There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. ⁶ There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. ⁷ Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. ⁸ To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, ⁹ to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, ¹⁰ to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.  ¹¹ All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.

Grace Communion Melbourne Fellowship Group – 1^st, 3^rd, and 4^th Sundays at 2:30 p.m.

2^nd Sundays Pot-Luck & Bible Study 1:30 p.m.

Meeting @ Pineda Presbyterian Church 5650 N. Wickham Rd

Charities

1. Food Bank @ Advent Lutheran (13) Advent Lutheran Church | Facebook
2. The Children's Hunger Project the Children’s Hunger Project l Homepage (thechildrenshungerproject.org)
3. Outreach Program for IHB School Supplies (13) City of Indian Harbour Beach Police Department - Posts | Facebook
4. Family Promise HOME | FPOB (familypromiseofbrevard.org)
5. GCI Grace Communion International (gci.org)
6. In His Steps Learning Academy, Inc.
7. Youth Summer Camps
8. Durham NC Start up GCI Church