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The featured studies
The studies in Life in the Spirit & the Church, sorted by the kind of thing each one teaches.
Summary
Life in the Spirit & the Church holds 15 of the site's 1112 featured studies, in 3 of the ten kinds.
- 2 studies ask what one passage says, line by line.
- 11 studies ask what Scripture teaches on a subject, from its first text to its fullest.
- 2 studies ask why Christians read the same texts differently.
The studies by kind
Passages and psalms
These studies take a chapter, a song or a single teaching and read it line by line. Each stays inside one passage and follows its own movement.
2 studies, 0 as cards, 2 in the register
The register: 2 studies of this kind
What Scripture teaches on a subject, from its first text to its fullest. The traditions that formed the teaching are named.
11 studies, 8 as cards, 3 in the register
The Gifts of the Spirit — 1 Corinthians 12–141 Corinthians 12–14 as the charter: four gift-lists under one Spirit, love as the governing chapter, and the gifts in operation today as Paul regulates them.
The Jerusalem Council — Acts 15One question walked into Jerusalem: must a Gentile become a Jew to be saved?, answered by four voices and a letter that set the church free.
Elders and DeaconsThree words, one office: presbyteros, episkopos, poimēn on the same men in Acts 20, the qualification lists side by side, and Phoebe's question held open.
The Fruit of the SpiritGalatians 5:22–23 names a singular fruit (karpos, not fruits) with nine visible facets. Gifts are distributed; fruit is unified. Every believer bears the whole fruit. The grammar is the theology.
Baptism in the Holy Spirit (the Acts Evidence)Five receptions of the Spirit in Acts laid out with the variety left in, and the Spirit's full operation today taught from each of them.
The Three Pentecosts — Acts 2, 10 & 19The same outpouring three times, at three walls, the Spirit crossing every boundary the gospel has to cross, first.
The Fivefold Ministry (Ephesians 4:11-13)Ephesians 4:11's five gifts, the one-office-or-two grammar question, and the contested center, continuing offices or foundation-era, presented at full strength both ways.
The Tests of Life — 1 John's Three Tests1 John's three interwoven tests: righteousness, love, belief, cycling and deepening across five chapters to a single assurance.
Questions Christians answer differently. Each study sets out the texts both sides read, the positions with their holders, and where this site's tradition lands.
2 studies, 0 as cards, 2 in the register
The register: 2 studies of this kind
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The text itself3
The roster is the site’s own build manifest, so no study can be missing from it. A study leads its kind when it carries a line of its own and more of the other studies link to it; a register row with no line of its own borrows the first sentence of the study’s own summary. The pictures are public domain: engravings by Gustave Doré from Doré’s English Bible(1866), and paintings held at Wikimedia Commons. Each is named in full on the study’s own page.