CHURCH PLANTING BY DESIGN part 3 (final)

The third way we can develop our spiritual gifts and talents is to SERVE WHERE WE FIT

God needs us where he designed us to be. We must embrace our unique place in the church. In writing to the Corinthian church, Paul said, “But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be" (1 Cor. 12:18 NIV).

If you would read 1 Cor. 12:12-30, Paul continues to tell us how important each person is to each other, and that each of us have a role and fitted for a particular ministry in the church. The question is, are you doing your part in the body? If you’re the hand, don’t act like you’re the feet? Or if you’re the toes, don’t act like you’re the heels.

The other night in America’s Got Talent, there was a guy came on stage to do a body contortion show. He can walk with his feet and head twisted to the opposite direction but the front of his body is pointing the other way. It was, just as one of the judges said, “freaky.” The truth is, there some individuals in church who are acting like a “freak.” Doing things in the church body which they were not designed to do. Are you in the wrong spot in the ministries of the church? Are you functioning just as God designed you for?

We need to serve Christ’s body, our community of faith, our church, like Christ who "did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” (see Matt. 20:28).

Our church is where we are called to serve Him with our unique design. It is through our church that we can grow and develop in our faith in Him as we serve one another. It is through our church that we can become fruitful in our faith.

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