{"id":359,"date":"2015-04-13T16:50:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T15:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/?p=359"},"modified":"2015-04-13T16:50:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T15:50:53","slug":"identifying-your-spiritual-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"Identifying your Spiritual Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<span itemprop=\"description\"><p>Identifying your Spiritual Gifts\t\t\t1 Corinthians 12:1-11<\/p>\n<p>Read 1 Corinthians 12:1-11.  Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. Tonight we will think about the different spiritual gifts members of the Group may have. Note that EVERY Christian will have one or more spiritual gifts, one or more ways in which God the Holy Spirit works through each one \u201cfor the common good\u201d. These gifts are not static or fixed \u2013 God can give an individual different gifts at different times depending on the needs of the church.<\/p>\n<p>Read the passages below and quickly make a list of the \u201cspiritual gifts\u201d mentioned. It might help if Group members write the list down. NB I have deliberately left out celibacy and martyrdom!<\/p>\n<p>1 Corinthians 12:7-11 again<\/p>\n<p>1 Corinthians 12:27-30<\/p>\n<p>Ephesians 4:11-13<\/p>\n<p>1 Peter 4:10-11<\/p>\n<p>Romans 12:6-8<\/p>\n<p>Exodus 31:1-5<\/p>\n<p>Note that the first mention of gifting by the Holy Spirit in the Bible is concerned with &#8220;skill, ability and knowledge in all kinds of crafts.&#8221; From this ask the group to suggest ways of serving God which do not feature on the classical list of &#8220;spiritual gifts&#8221; found in the New Testament passages. Suggestions could include administration, welcoming, encouraging, musical and artistic gifts.<\/p>\n<p>Get into pairs. Each person should tell the other, \u201cThe spiritual gift(s) I think God has given me is\/are \u2026\u2026 because \u2026\u2026.\u201d For a couple of minutes the person should talk about one or two occasions when God has used them through exercising that gift. (This question should only take 6-7 minutes)<\/p>\n<p>Now go round the group one by one. For each person, the other one in their pair should begin by telling the whole group \u201cI believe the spiritual gift(s) God has given this person is\/are \u2026.. because\u2026\u2026.\u201d Then other members of the group can join in, either saying \u201cI agree that that is your gift because \u2026..\u201d and talking about some occasion when they saw or heard the person exercising that gift. Alternatively Group members may say \u201cI believe your gift could also be  \u2026\u2026(something different) because \u2026..\u201d It will NOT be appropriate for anybody to say \u201cYou\u2019re wrong \u2013 your gift is not \u2026. !\u201d The idea is to ENCOURAGE each other! Conclude by praying for each other<\/p>\n<span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\"><span itemprop=\"description\">Identifying your Spiritual Gifts 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 Read 1 Corinthians 12:1-11. Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p btn-align-left\"><a class=\"blue zoom-btn\" href=\"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/?p=359\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}