"My Gift In The Body"
Gifts in the Body of Christ – Romans 12:3-8
- What gifts do we jump to?
- Preaching
- Prophecy
- Miracles
- But what gifts do we jump over?
- Generosity – Mark 12:41-44
- Kindness – Luke 10:30-35
- Teaching – 1 Thess. 1:6-7
- Serving – John 13:3-17
- Leading – Acts 1:15-17
- Encouraging – John 11:33-37
- Members do not all have the same function
- We have different gifts and that’s a good thing
- Have you ever been part of a team of all leaders? All workers?
- Various gifts make us more effective
- With the gifts in better focus, let’s consider ourselves
- In this section we’re told to consider ourselves with “sober judgment”, not under- or overrating our gifts
- Moses did both of these at some point – Exodus 4:1-13 & Numbers 20:8-13
- We should be finding the measure of our gifts, not being uncertain or overconfident
- We need to use these gifts
- Vs. 6 tells us to use them. That’s how we’ll know what our gifts
- We’ll never know if we don’t try
- Many times we wait for some great sign to enlighten us as to what our gifts are
- The body builds itself up
- Ephesians 4:11-16
- When all of these parts do their jobs (use their gifts) the body is built up
- Teachers, leaders, encouragers – actively build new body parts
- What gifts do you have?
- Think about the gifts that you have used in the past
- Are there gifts that you don’t even know about?