“There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit is the source of them all. There are different kinds of service, but we serve the same Lord. God works in different ways, but it is the same God who does the work in all of us.”
1 Corinthians 12:4-6 (NLT)
1. WE BECOME EXTRAORDINARY BY THE USE OF GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT!
“To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.”
1 Corinthians 12:7 (ESV)
“God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another. Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of helping others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen!”
1 Peter 4:10-11(NLT)
2. EXERCISE YOUR GIFTINGS WITH THE SPIRIT OF EXCELLENCE!
“Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ.”
Ephesians 4:11-12 (NLT)
“This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ.”
Ephesians 4:13 (NLT)
3. WE MUST USE OUR SPIRITUAL GIFTS IN UNITY!
“For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.”
Romans 12:4-5 (NIV)
VICTORY GROUP QUESTIONS:
1. In what ways are you using your spiritual gifts in church?
2. How can you improve in operating in your spiritual gifts?
3. How can we as a body of Christ operate in unity using our gifts?
4. Take a spiritual gifts test! See what your gifts are.
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