Gifts of the Holy Spirit!

[InLight247]

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I wonder if there is a differece in people having different gifts and different churches haveing different gifts also.
So that each church would have a different place in the body of Christ?

There is only one Church, in this Church, there are different parishes, if this is what you mean.

The answer to your question is to be found best in the following Bible passage:

“To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit. To one is given through the Spirit the expression of wisdom; to another the expression of knowledge according to the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit; to another discernment of spirits; to another varieties of tongues; to another interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing them individually to each person as he wishes.”
1 Corinthians 12:7-11

 

[Rykell]

Dear Little One,

If you mean those outside of the Catholic Church, then … yes. This is the official wording from the Council Document Lumen Gentium:

1. The Church recognizes that in many ways she is linked with those who, being baptized, are honored with the name of Christian, though they do not profess the faith in its entirety or do not preserve unity of communion with the successor of Peter. For there are many who honor Sacred Scripture, taking it as a norm of belief and a pattern of life, and who show a sincere zeal. They lovingly believe in God the Father Almighty and in Christ, the Son of God and Saviour. They are consecrated by baptism, in which they are united with Christ. They also recognize and accept other sacraments within their own Churches or ecclesiastical communities. Many of them rejoice in the episcopate, celebrate the Holy Eucharist and cultivate devotion toward the Virgin Mother of God. They also share with us in prayer and other spiritual benefits.** Likewise we can say that in some real way they are joined with us in the Holy Spirit, for to them too He gives His gifts and graces whereby He is operative among them with His sanctifying power. Some indeed He has strengthened to the extent of the shedding of their blood.** In all of Christ’s disciples the Spirit arouses the desire to be peacefully united, in the manner determined by Christ, as one flock under one shepherd, and He prompts them to pursue this end. (17*) Mother Church never ceases to pray, hope and work that this may come about. She exhorts her children to purification and renewal so that the sign of Christ may shine more brightly over the face of the earth.

 

[littleone]

Yes as I have mentioned in another thread Jesus related to the deciples when they complained of a group using the gifts of the Holy Spirit that they were not in their group, and should not be using the gifts.
Jesus said that “he who is not against us is for us”. I also remember that the HolySpirit was on that group only momentuously. It did not resolve there, which at that time I believe was God’s choice so that the teaching would come about for the future Apostles.

 

[littleone]

Does the church have a format for the uplifting of those with differernt gifts, so that the best can come from the individual who has these gifts. Also what would be the best way any individual could sponser any person with obvious gifts in the church?