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What does the Bible say about Spiritual Gifts?
There are many spiritual gifts and the primary way you will learn what they are is to get involved in different types of ministry.
A lot of people try to figure out their gifts then get into ministry, but that doesn’t work.
As you do ministry, you will discover what you are gifted at.
You won’t discover your gifts by just going through a list.
What is a spiritual gift?
A spiritual gift is a special ability given by the Holy Spirit to every believer at their conversion, to be used to minister to others and therefore build up the body of Christ.
It’s different than a talent.
The Purpose of Spiritual Gifts
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Not for my benefit, but for the benefit of others.
SG are always for the benefit of others...
Contrary to what some people teach, Spiritual Gifts are not meant to bless or benefit you.
They are given to you to serve and bless others… to bless the church.
2. To produce maturity and harmony in your church family.
Probably all of us know someone who has been pulled away from the truth of the Christian faith.
Why is that?
Because people around them were not using their spiritual gifts to help them grow and become stable.
When you use the gifts God has given you, it produces maturity and stability.
Ten Truths about Spiritual Gifts
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Only believers have spiritual gifts
2. Every Christian has at least one spiritual gift.
3.
No one receives all of the gifts.
Think about it, if people received all of the gifts, we would not need each other.
But God places us into his body.
We need each other.
4. No single gift is given to everyone
We do however believe that everyone, when they are filled with the HS, receives a prayer language to pray in the spirit.
5.
You can’t earn a spiritual gift.
You don’t earn gifts… a gift is something that’s given.
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The Holy Spirit decides what gifts I receive.
7. The gifts I am given are permanent.
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I am to develop the gifts that God gives me.
When you’re given a gift, it’s given in seed form.
It needs to grow.
It is just like a muscle, the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.
The more you use your spiritual gift, the stronger it will get.
One of the gifts God has given me is the gift of encouragement, and it comes out in my preaching.
I like to encourage people.
The more that I use it, the better I get at it.
It develops.
I’m to develop the gifts God gives me.
9. It’s a sin waste the gifts God gives me.
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Using my gifts honors God and expands me.
Cautions about Spiritual Gifts
Gifts are not to be confused with natural abilities.
Good at sales is a vocational skill.
Gifts are not to be confused with the Fruit of the Spirit
Fruit shows my maturity
Gifts sho my ministry
Gifts are not to be confused with Christian Roles.
You might be teaching a class, but not have the gift of teaching…
Be aware of the gift projection tendency.
This is where we expect others to serve like we do and have the same type of results.
This is real common and it causes a lot of difficulty in the church, expecting other people to serve in the way you do and have similar results.
For example, people with the gift of mercy expect everybody else to be just as merciful.
People with the gift of prophecy—they’re the confronters.
They come up and say, “That’s wrong!” and they expect everybody else to be just as confrontive.
When you get a person with mercy and a person with prophecy in the same Bible Study group, expect sparks because they’re going to tend to project onto other people.
People with the gift of administration expect everybody else to be organized.
It’s natural.
So you’ve got to be careful not to project on other people.
People with the gift of evangelism—it seems like every plane they get onto, somebody gets saved.
They bring 3,000 people to church.
It’s natural.
They just have an ability to share Christ with other people.
And it makes everybody else feel guilty!
They say, “How come I don’t see that many people come to Christ?”
There are different gifts and abilities and you should not project your gift onto somebody else.
Our gifts do not make us superior to others.
Realize that using my gifts without love is worthless.
Paul wrote a whole chapter on this...
Recognize that you have both primary and secondary ministry in your church
You may be needed to help in an area that is not where you have a spiritual gift or that you are not shaped for … but you serve there because it’s needed.
It’s your secondary ministry.
How do you know the difference?
How to tell the difference
My primary ministry commitment should be in the area I am gifted or shaped for.
My secondary ministry commitment includes serving in any other area of the body where I am needed.
If someone needs help, you can’t say, it’s not my gift to go help… you go help.
Just as you are gifted to be a minister in a primary area, God expects us to manifest all the gifts just as roles.
In other words, some people have the gift of giving, the ability to make money and give it away.
That’s their gift.
That does not excuse all the rest of us from giving.
I don’t have the gift of giving, but I’m called to give simply because I’m a Christian.
All of us are called to teach in different situations or settings.
All of us are called to be leaders in different settings and situations.
All of us are called at times to give a word of encouragement.
You say, “It’s not my gift, therefore I never encourage anybody.”
(One lady said, “I have the gift of criticism.”
Listen “I’m sorry, but that’s not in the Bible.
It’s not a spiritual gift.”)
So the secondary ministries mean I’m just willing to serve, to help out when I’m needed.
If I’m needed to set up chairs I can’t say, “That’s not my gift.”
I just go set up chairs because I’m a servant of Christ, and Jesus said, “He that wants to be great learns to be a servant of all.”
If I’m asked to lead a Small group, I’ll help out, not because I’m gifted there, but it’s a secondary ministry—it’s not my primary role.
But I’m willing to do that because of my maturity.
We will continue this in two weeks...
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