Kevin Taylor's Bible Study
Title:
Are you normal?
by Kevin Taylor
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• Name:
Kevin Taylor
• Residence:
Leicestershire,
England
• Favorite Verse:
Romans 1 v 16
• Favorite Quote:
"Things are lookin good!"
• Hobbies:
walking, dining
out, family life,
Christian fellowship
• Date of Salvation:
Oct 1991
• Latest News:
This site and the privilege of sharing the word on the net
is a major blessing to me especially when you consider that only a year
ago I had never used a pc. But I have been obedient to the Lord, and been
taught, and now have this blessing bestowed upon me . Thank you Lord.
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God bless all of you.
Are you normal, or do you conform to the norm.? This
is an open-ended question I’m sure you would agree, after all what is the
norm? If that is the case, why are so many Christians getting so hung up
about who they should be like, or what type of Christian they are, or even
are they as “spiritual” as they should be. I have noticed in the body of
Christ that there is a certain amount of peer pressure from various sources
pointing to various role models in the church as to how an “Ideal Christian”
should be, or whose teaching we should follow or which big name to look
up to. This seems to me to be the world’s ideas not The Lord's, and lets
be honest, we have all been down this alley at some time or another. Lets
see what the bible says!
1 Corinthians 12 v 29 “Are all Apostils? 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 the best
gifts.”
I know this scripture is speaking about spiritual gifts, but there
is a biblical principle here. We are all different, no two Christians are
the same. We will all differ on some things and agree on others. Also we
will be right on some things and wrong on others. There is one thing we
do agree on, that is that Jesus is Lord!
1 Corinthians 1 v 12 One of you says, “I follow Paul” someone else says,
“I follow Apollos” or “I follow Cephas” still another says, “I follow Christ.”
Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptised into the
name of Paul?
It’s clear from this scripture that the early Corinthian
church had this same problem, so much so that Paul had to address the problem
by redirecting their thinking. He points out that “Christ is not divided”
and we were baptised into Jesus, and not into Paul or any one else’s name
for that matter.
Brothers and sisters, don’t be anxious, God has made you, “YOU” and not
someone else. If he had wanted you to be someone else he would have made
you someone else and not you. Be yourself, and nobody else. If you are
trying to be someone else it’s like saying God has got it wrong when he
made you. Do you think God got it wrong? I don’t! If you view yourself as
different, well maybe you are. So what, after all what is normal! God has
got his hand and calling on your life, and if there’s any changes needed
in you then God will bring them to pass. It’s called “sanctification.”
Philippians 1 v 6 “Be confident of this, He who began a good work in you
will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
The truth
is we are all different, and we all need each other, and these differences
will come in handy.
1 Corinthians 12 v 14 “Now the body is not made up
of one part but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand,
I do not belong to the body,” it would not be for that reason cease to be
part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I
do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason cease to be part
of the body. If the whole body was an eye, where would its sense of hearing
be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But
in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just
as he wanted them to be.”
Brothers and sisters the church (Body) needs
you! There are jobs to be done that if you don’t do them, they wont get
done. There are people’s lives that need speaking into and if you don’t
say it, it won’t get said. In fact there is a “you” shaped hole in the body
of Christ and if “you” don’t fill it, it won’t get filled. God made you
warts and all. You are important and unique, and there is a reason for your
existence, so if you are different and not normal, praise God, so am I.
The reason for this teaching is to liberate you from any feelings of inadequacy
due to the fact that you may not be like some of the big international preachers,
or even like some of the “super spiritual ones” in your own church. God
made you “YOU” and not them. The Lord uses them and he will use you also,
you will see! I will finish with a scripture that my first pastor used to
pray over us.
Ephesians 1 v 6 “To the praise of the glory of his grace,
wherein he has made us accepted in the beloved.”
Bye for now, Kev & family.
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E-MAIL KEVIN AT: kev@faithmania.com
Hello! My name is Kevin Taylor. I am 42 years old, married
with two teen age daughters. I have been a Christian for ten years and I
worship at a small church called Bardon Park Chapel near to where I live
in Leicestershire, England. I work as a machine setter in the engineering trade. My
out look on life is simple. It is this. Jesus is the answer, now whats the
question. Jesus is Lord. He is Lord.
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