OPENING PRAYER

Spend 5 to 15 minutes in prayer about the following:

• Use Psalm 139:14-16 as your prayer guide. Read that passage and pray it back to God with the same wonder and awe in which it was originally written

BIBLE

Read John 19

• What did you learn about yourself?
• What did you learn about God?
• What will do differently based upon what you read?

MEMORY VERSE

Read the following passage out loud. Repeat it five times. Make sure to say the verse address both before and after the passage

Ephesians 2:10

For ____ are ______ __________________, created in __________ __________ to do ________ __________, which ______ ________________ in ______________ for us ____ ____.

Ephesians 2:10

STUDY

Yesterday, we found out that God gives spiritual gifts to every believer that enable them to fulfill the call that he/she as been given. In the New Testament, multiple passages list out the various gifts that God gives. Today, you are going to look at those different passages so that you have an idea for the broad spectrum of gifts that make the church a powerful force for serving others and spreading the Kingdom.

Read the following passages and list out as many gifts as you can identify. Be aware, some of gifts are repeated in the different passages and some are unique to each passage. Try to make a comprehensive list by compiling the gifts from all the passages. The blanks are there just to provide space for you to write. You might come up with fifteen gifts, or you might come up with twenty. The goal is to grasp the variety of God’s gifts for His children.

Romans 12:6-8, 1 Corinthians 12:8-10, 1 Corinthians 12:28, Ephesians 4:11

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By now, you probably already have a good idea about which gifts you have been given. Perhaps you are not quite sure. Fortunately, there is a tool that helps figure out what your gifting may be. Click the below and fill out the assessment:

Spiritual Gifts Assessment

Make sure you submit the form with your email address so that you get the results. If you have questions about what each gift is, you can find descriptions for each one here:

Spiritual Gift Descriptions

We will be talking about your results at this week’s SOI meeting.

 

CLOSING PRAYER