8/7/2023 0 Comments Sermon on unity chip ingramWhile our different gifts can become points of jealousy or even disagreement, they should be cause for rejoicing since God has especially selected your gift FOR YOU to uniquely use. There will be different areas of giftedness (1 Corinthians 12:14-27) and each is necessary for the church to fully grow up into Christ-likeness. We all have something that God wants to use us in. There are no ‘”saturating saints” whose assignment is to sit and watch. It is my desire that we deploy every person who is willing to serve. He created YOU to be that dwelling place of His Spirit. God’s dwelling place is not made with human hands. Everything else is dispensable… only you are eternal. It is not something we go to or an address on the map. The idea with this is not to simply corral people into the sanctuary but to help them find their God-given assignments through the church. Finding ways to distribute workers to the places where they are best suited and gifted to work is a key concept. As we begin to think through the implications of Advance 2020, these points may help us: I felt it important to repeat and restate some key points from last Sunday’s message on Nehemiah titled, Moving Forward…Together.
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