“Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms.” - Philippians 4:10

The Holy Spirit pours gifts and passion into believers to build up the body of Christ - the church - so the church can reach the world through the good news of Jesus.

Spiritual gifts demonstrate the power of God on earth, build up the church, and work in teams to reach out to a lost culture.

“From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does it’s work.” - Ephesians 4:16

These sessions inspire groups of believers, through Scripture, to identify and engage what the Holy Spirit has placed in them and every believer in the church.

“But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. This is why it says, ‘When he ascended on high, he took many captive and gave gifts to his people.’” - Ephesians 4:7,8

The current culture is swamping Christians with an overload of knowledge, human effort, and sin. As resistance to Christians and Christianity grows on an immoral landscape, it will increasingly be important for each believer in every church to know and understand how the Holy Spirit has empowered them so they can be spiritually effective in resisting cultural sin, while at the same time leading people to trust, follow and obey Jesus. Doing both at the same time is the challenge — Glorifying God and Edifying People at the same time!

Just knowing the spiritual gift the Holy Spirit has given you is important, but knowing how it works and fits with 20 other spiritual gifts from the Holy Spirit is critical. Taking a profile is all about you. But going through these inspiring sessions with a group of believers is about the power of the Holy Spirit moving through the body of Christ. And then you with your God-given gift seeing the Holy Spirit actually working in your church.

Spiritual Gifts are not - natural talents, or fruits of the Spirit, or ministry positions, or Christian disciplines. So what are they? The Bible lists them, describes them, and shows how the Holy Spirit uses each one of them to build up the church. The more important questions are: Do you know what the Spirit has placed in you? Or how you’re supposed to use it? Or even where and when to give it?

“So in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us.” - Romans 12:5,6

“But in fact God has arranged the parts of the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.” - 1 Corinthians 12:18

WHW

What has God designed you to do in the body of Christ?

How has God designed you to contribute your spiritual gift/s to build up His church?

Where do you best fit (according to the Holy Spirit) in serving others and Christ in your church?

“Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.” - 1 Corinthians 12:1

  • This process inspires and equips believers at your church to serve the Lord in His Body. It answers the question -Where does each person fit in ministries in our church? Connecting ministries, celebration ministries, caring ministries, equipping, outreach, or supporting? And each person is scripturally encouraged to plug in and serve effectively as you guide them.

  • “Few jobs or callings carry such diverse expectations as pastoral ministry.”

    Expectations are a powerful thing. We find ourselves as pastors responding to them, living up to them, being crushed by them - even complaining about them. The one thing we cannot do, however, is escape them. People expect things. Together with a watching world, our own people expect things of us. And the burden that flows from those expectations can be overwhelming.

    Consider this question: Why do so many pastors get bitter? Most pastors get very little encouragement. Yet they deal with people who are most often in the darkest and most challenging moments of life. It’s draining work. The expectations people have for their spiritual leaders are so high that failure is almost inevitable. Years of giving oneself for the needs and welfare of others, while constantly being criticized for not measuring up to some arbitrary and often unfair standard, can really get under a pastor’s skin.

    One complaining individual or couple can literally drain an entire elder and leadership team in a church. There are answers to these struggles. Real biblical answers that give the WHAT and the HOW. Knowing what each spiritual gift contributes to the body, and how each one works, helps to equip pastors and church leaders with what they need to purposefully lead people. Joy comes through seeing the work the Holy Spirit does in believers.

    (excerpts taken from: Discovery Series - The Heart of Effective Ministry)

  • The WHAT we do, WHY we do it, and HOW we do it are all extremely important so that through the communication of God’s Word, people might know and embrace the love of God. However, most pastors have the WHY burned into their heart….with very little insight into the WHAT, HOW, and WHERE. There is a great need for pastors, leaders and believers to know how spiritual gifts work in the body of Christ and what they actually do. When that happens…it is then that teams form, unity grows through godly purpose, outreach becomes effective, and joy is found in serving the Lord in your church.

  • In this interactive seminar you will:

    1. Learn the literal scriptural meaning of every gift

    2. Discover what each gift contributes spiritually to the body of Christ

    3. Learn the biblical description, distinctives, traits, cautions and scriptural location of each gift

    4. Discover how you are energized and organized by God’s work in you

    5. Discover what passion God has placed in you for His purpose

  • 1. Gifts Discovery Seminar - a Friday night and Saturday morning discovery, scripture, engaging questions, humor, and learning to wait on the power of the Holy Spirit.

    2. Gifts Coach Training (Two 2 hour sessions previous to Seminar for Pastors, Staff and Lay Leaders) - how to form meaningful teams of gifts that serve and lead interdependent with each other. How to use teams to effectively “do the work of an evangelist” (2 Timothy 4:1-5) in your community and culture.

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