If Everyone is Commissioned to go then we would be One Big Foot instead of an entire body. Everyone should have a Gift from the Holy Spirit because Jesus said, You Must Be Born Again. This is After everyone was baptized by John. We need to look at All the Gifts that we can find in the scriptures and not single everyone out to be Fishers of Men or tongue talkers. I pray in tongues but I have not stood up and "spoken" in tongues. It is better to Interpret the tongues and better yet to Prophecy. Yet, the Greatest of these is Love. Without God there is no love because God Is Love.
1st Corinthians 12 is were we find the majority of the gifts mentioned. 3...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. -- This is the Initial Evidence of the Holy Spirit. Not tongues. 4. There are different gifts, but the same Spirit. There are different ministries, but the same Lord. There are different ways of working, but the same God works all things in all men. Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom (1) to another the message of knowledge (2) by the same Spirit, to another faith (3) by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing (4) by that one Spirit, to another the working of miracles (5) to another prophecy (6) to another distinguishing between spirits (7) to another speaking in various tongues (8) and to still another the interpretation of tongues (9). All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, who apportions them to each one as He determines. Then the "man" Paul shows his human side by mixing gifts with ministries. 27. Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of it. And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles (5), and those with gifts of healing (4), helping, administration, and various tongues (8). Then we find the term Evangelist in 2nd Timothy 4:5 and Ephesians 4:11 And it was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be "evangelists", and some to be pastors and teachers. Compared to 1st Corinthians 12:28 apostles, prophets, teachers... it is possible that an Evangelist is a teacher more than a preacher. An apostle will preach and perform signs, wonders and miracles 2nd Corinthians 12:12 and the evangelist should teach about what the apostle is doing and through whom he is doing it. Jesus did not send them alone. They went out in twos. Luke 10:1 ...the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of Him to every town and place He was about to visit. 1st Corinthians 12:29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? But eagerly desire the greater gifts. Chapter 13 is all about Love, the Greatest Gift.
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