Gifts and Ministries

Gifts and Ministries
1 Corinthians 12.27-31a

Bishop Lesslie Newbigin, in his autobiography, Unfinished Agenda, tells how he served as secretary to the committee that was drawing up, during the 1940s, the constitution for the newly united Church of South India. The chairman raised the question: what shall we do about canons, deans, archdeacons and the like? ‘I paused,’ said Newbigin, ‘with my pen ready to write down the decision of the committee. Nobody said anything for a while; then a single voice said “Abolish them.” Since nobody challenged this proposal, I wrote down the one word: Abolished.’...

Taken from Paul 1 Corinthians for Everyone – by Tom Wright