{"id":612,"date":"2012-07-24T13:40:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T18:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/?p=612"},"modified":"2012-07-24T13:40:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T18:40:05","slug":"spiritual-gifts-and-spiritual-fruit-tim-keller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/24\/spiritual-gifts-and-spiritual-fruit-tim-keller\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual gifts and spiritual fruit – Tim Keller"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been pondering this. Please feel free to share your own thoughts in the comments.<\/p>\n

“Gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name: speaking, encouraging, serving, evangelizing, teaching, leading, administering, counseling, discipling, organizing. Graces, often called spiritual fruit, are beauties of character: love, joy, peace, humility, gentleness, self-control. \"\"<\/a>. Unless you understand the greater importance of grace and gospel-character for ministry effectiveness, the discernment and use of spiritual gifts may actually become a liability in your ministry. The terrible danger is that we can look to our ministry activity as evidence that God is with us or as a way to earn God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s favor and prove ourselves.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n“Spiritual gifts are what we do; spiritual fruit is what we are”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ponderings","category-what","tag-discipleship","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/spiritualfruit.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xumr-9S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}