I have to tell you this past weekend was wonderful in the life of Roswell Street Baptist Church. Our church family began this wonderful season of celebrating the life of Christ with our Women's Brunch and Bazaar focusing on supporting the Crisis Pregnancy Center. Kim Buckner, Mary Ann Baker, and Suzy Thrasher all blessed us with the message of Christmas through their sharing of Christmas Tradition and their beautiful voices. How blessed are we to have such talent and willingness to use their gifts to Honor the King of Kings!
Spiritual Gifts have been on my mind a lot lately. Do you know what your spiritual gifts are? I recently heard it described in a really easy way to understand. The Spiritual Gifts we have are usually strongest in a few areas, making it easy for the Body of Christ to work together as one. It's like going to a Covered Dish Dinner, where you get a little of this and a little of that on your plate but you get a little more of some others.....that's a picture of our spiritual gift. Pastor James MacDonald recently preached a series on "Finding Your Place" that I get on my podcast and he speaks about how important the balance of gifts is in the Body of Christ. He is so right. If we had a church where the gift of mercy was all we had, we would be floating in tears. The gift of mercy is important but it has to be balanced with the other gifts. If we had a church full of the gift of prophecy, we would have parched ground as the prophets speak so frankly about what they see and understand. There has to be balance.
The problem comes when people do not use their gifts in His service. I keep finding that there are so many of us that don't understand what our gifts are. We have a wonderful opportunity to learn about our Spiritual Gifts at RSBC through Place Ministries. Take advantage of that resource to learn about all the spiritual gifts, take a survey that will help point you in the right direction, and most of all, roll up your sleeves and go to work in the church. If it is your giftedness, you will know because you find in fulfilling and you are not stressed over and you will hear compliments from others. If you wind up serving in an area that is not your gift, don't give up - keep trying different things until you know....
I'm beginning to think the greatest gift you could give this Christmas season is using your Spiritual Gifts in service to Christ the King!
This Sunday is our Missions Sunday where our goal is $390,000 from our church family for Missions this next year. Consider giving in honor of someone else this year and send that person a card telling them you made that offering in their name as their Christmas Gift....what a wonderful gift to give when we have so much and missionaries around the world have the opportunities to give eternal life through their sacrificial service....
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