Not everybody in the world has spiritual gifts. Unbelievers do not. But every Christian person who is committed to Jesus and truly a member of His Body has at least one gift and quite possibly more. The Bible says that every Christian has received a gift (see 1 Pet. 4:10) and that “the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all” (1 Cor. 12:7). First Corinthians 12:18, as we have just seen, stresses that every one of the members is placed in the
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