{"id":443,"date":"2010-06-27T17:02:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T07:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/?p=443"},"modified":"2010-07-01T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T07:06:00","slug":"punchbowl-christian-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"Punchbowl Christian Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed spending the morning with friends at Punchbowl Christian Centre on Sunday.  As part of the church&#8217;s &#8220;My place in God&#8217;s space&#8221; series we looked at the nature of Spiritual Gifts and their use for God&#8217;s kingdom.  In this session we unpacked the New Testament teaching on &#8220;charismata&#8221; or grace gifts.  I suggested that it is most important to be open to the Giver -God, and open to where and how God&#8217;s grace might flow through our lives to others.  Rather than seeking out specific gifts, maybe the challenge is to find the areas in which God&#8217;s grace flowing through us impacts the lives of others for their growth.<br \/>\n<a title=\"View The Giver, The Gifts, Grace and Growth v2 on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/33767313\/The-Giver-The-Gifts-Grace-and-Growth-v2\" style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;\">The Giver, The Gifts, Grace and Growth v2<\/a> <object id=\"doc_675472367411780\" name=\"doc_675472367411780\" height=\"600\" width=\"100%\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\" style=\"outline:none;\" ><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\"><\/param><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"document_id=33767313&#038;access_key=key-1yrqcsdzd35c9zfvf38s&#038;page=1&#038;viewMode=slideshow\"><embed id=\"doc_675472367411780\" name=\"doc_675472367411780\" src=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=33767313&#038;access_key=key-1yrqcsdzd35c9zfvf38s&#038;page=1&#038;viewMode=slideshow\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"600\" width=\"100%\" wmode=\"opaque\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\"><\/embed><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed spending the morning with friends at Punchbowl Christian Centre on Sunday. As part of the church&#8217;s &#8220;My place in God&#8217;s space&#8221; series we looked at the nature of Spiritual Gifts and their use for God&#8217;s kingdom. In this session we unpacked the New Testament teaching on &#8220;charismata&#8221; or grace gifts. I suggested that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/?p=443\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Punchbowl Christian Centre&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-teaching","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}