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[816.42 --> 821.94] he's a pastor now i just don't have the gift of tongues and how heartbreaking is it that his |
[821.94 --> 826.66] introduction to spiritual gifts was i guess this one's not for you i guess you should sit down now |
[826.66 --> 834.58] given that it's appreciation sunday i want to step back and take a few moments to celebrate |
[835.22 --> 840.50] i want to take a few moments to celebrate the diverse gifts in this body you know two weeks ago |
[840.50 --> 843.78] i already mentioned this we had a spiritual gift seminar and we had everyone who was there right |
[843.78 --> 847.86] on the wall they just sort of named their gifts which is a bit intimidating you know put your name |
[847.86 --> 852.10] down beside these certain gifts i had a sheet that val wrote for me and i don't have it up here |
[852.10 --> 859.30] but uh i just celebrated all the different ways people said yes that is my gift and i want to |
[859.30 --> 863.22] serve with it and based on that and some of my knowledge of people in our church i just want to |
[863.22 --> 869.30] say a few names here praise the lord for the gift of hospitality and who would we be without people like |
[869.30 --> 876.10] sonia and doug and philip who's probably barbecuing right now and others in our church who are just |
[876.10 --> 880.42] the deeply hospitable people in our church you meet them you feel like you're part of their family |
[880.42 --> 884.74] and there's a good chance you're going to be in their home who would we be without the gifts of |
[884.74 --> 891.62] mercy that are embodied by our deacons by florence john pam and others in our church who are seeking |
[891.62 --> 898.90] to serve the needs in our community who would we be without the gifts of intercession lydia jacob |
[898.90 --> 905.70] joyce esther who would we be without the gift of leadership brayden who is up here andre others in |
[905.70 --> 911.22] our church who lead well as elders in our church what a gift to have these gifts and when they all |
[911.22 --> 917.06] come together there is that beauty and blessing and the church is enriched and can i just say this |
[917.70 --> 924.02] this has been a good year of ministry god has been good to us we continue to grow new people become |
[924.02 --> 928.82] christians in our church our children are learning the story praise the lord and it's not just because |
[928.82 --> 935.38] of a few of us on the stage who are teaching it's because the gifts in this body are being used for the |
[935.38 --> 940.66] building up and the blessing of our community praise the lord for that as a pastor who has one little |
[940.66 --> 948.34] role up here on stage i am so grateful for the seen and unseen ways people serve selflessly |
[948.90 --> 955.78] quietly to disciple to teach to grow to care to nurture to pray god is answering our prayers |
[959.30 --> 964.42] now the issue in corinth as i mentioned was that some gifts got platformed some got relegated to the |
[964.42 --> 970.58] side some were important and special and some were not named at all and the question i have is how |
[970.58 --> 979.30] might that be true for us are there conscious or unconscious ways we platform sun gifts and we forget |
[979.30 --> 985.38] to talk about and honor others josiah bookman when he was here teaching on spiritual gifts he says most |
[985.38 --> 990.90] churches play favorites in one way or another and so now i'm going to just do some wondering with us you |
[990.90 --> 996.34] know some churches they value the power gifts that we had on the screen the healing prophetic words |
[996.34 --> 1002.58] etc and they don't value the administrative gifts and that might be what corinth described as other |
[1002.58 --> 1009.86] churches if i can pick on the dutch church that i grew up in values very much order and structure and so |
[1009.86 --> 1016.90] we look for people with the gift of administration we want orderly very detailed organized plans and |
[1016.90 --> 1021.46] leadership who bring these things together and we kind of don't talk much about the spiritual gifts |
[1021.46 --> 1029.14] like healing and prophecy etc some churches and this is true in the protestant world really value the |
[1029.14 --> 1035.06] teaching preaching gifts and i'm grateful those are the gifts that i think i have but at the expense of |
[1035.06 --> 1039.78] everything else so all that matters in the worship service is what's said about the scriptures the |
[1039.78 --> 1044.18] worship is less important community is less important all that matters is teaching and that can be a |
[1044.18 --> 1051.06] serious problem the pastor i mentioned earlier david fairchild he said be careful of churches that |
[1051.06 --> 1056.42] focus everything just on the teaching ministry he says this is what kind of church it is it's a t-rex church |
[1057.54 --> 1064.66] you know what that means it's got a giant mouth talking a lot and tiny useless little hands |
[1066.50 --> 1072.10] let's be careful not to be a t-rex church i celebrate the fact that we've got lots of hands and feet and |
[1072.10 --> 1076.74] movement in our church blessing the city discipling the church because it's dangerous just have a big voice |
[1076.74 --> 1084.26] talking and no action that's not a healthy church but now to get more specific and maybe more to the point even our own |
[1084.26 --> 1091.14] church what might be the gifts that we're not taking seriously in our body what might be the things that we're |
[1091.14 --> 1099.86] just not quite comfortable talking about and celebrating and i'm just going to read the list named in this passage and ask you are we |
[1099.86 --> 1108.34] nurturing and celebrating these gifts you ready some have a message of knowledge some are given the gift of faith |
[1109.14 --> 1115.22] some are given the gift of healing some are given the gift of miraculous powers some are given the gift of |
[1115.22 --> 1121.22] prophecy some are given the gift of distinguishing spirits some are given the gift of speaking in tongues |
[1121.22 --> 1129.70] still others are given the gift of interpreting those tongues i wonder if i may be so bold if we have |
[1129.70 --> 1136.18] the opposite problem to the corinthian church they might have thought of hospitality and administration |
[1136.18 --> 1141.94] and leading as boring and all the spiritual power gifts as up here and maybe in our context in our city |
[1141.94 --> 1148.58] in our time we've reversed that and to put a finer point on it i remember when we had our conference just |
[1148.58 --> 1153.38] a few weeks ago on spiritual gifts we invited three people up to the front to talk about what their |
[1153.38 --> 1158.18] spiritual gift was how they discovered it and how they're seeking to use that gift to serve we had |
[1158.18 --> 1163.94] jan reynolds are you in the service jan are we in the 9am she was in the 9am jan had the gift of teaching |
[1163.94 --> 1168.74] and what a gift she is by the way in our women's bible study in her gift of teaching then we had philip |
[1168.74 --> 1173.70] who's barbecuing right now with the gift of hospitality and he was sharing how he learned that how he serves in |
[1173.70 --> 1178.82] that even vocationally and then we had joe okilebo where's joe there you are joe shared about the gift |
[1178.82 --> 1184.18] of prophecy and the gift of understanding words of knowledge and then uh as everyone shared joe was |
[1184.18 --> 1190.34] the only one to say since moving from nigeria to canada i am quote unquote nervous to talk about this |
[1190.34 --> 1197.06] gift and nervous to exercise that gift in our church and my pastor's heart broke because that was |
[1197.06 --> 1201.06] one of the moments where i realized maybe unconsciously we've put administration and teaching |
[1201.06 --> 1206.98] and leadership and hospitality up here and healing prophetic words and all the rest down here and joe |
[1206.98 --> 1215.22] i am so glad that god brought you to our church and not just you but everyone who has the gifts of |
[1215.22 --> 1222.66] prophetic words words of knowledge discernment healing i am so thankful that you are in our church we |
[1223.30 --> 1229.94] need those gifts in this body and if you are interested in those and those are awakening in you i want |
[1229.94 --> 1234.50] you to talk to joe or talk to me we want to steward those we want to enliven them we want to really |
[1234.50 --> 1239.22] bring them to fruition so that we have words of prophecy in our church we have people praying for |
[1239.22 --> 1247.70] healing in our church because we need those power gifts in our church they have not gone away a lot of |
[1247.70 --> 1251.22] times there are christians in the west who just because we haven't seen healing or we haven't heard |
[1251.22 --> 1255.78] prophetic words we just think well i guess that's the end but the global church bears witness to these |
[1255.78 --> 1260.34] gifts the scriptures never tell us by the way when the apostles finish their ministry that they just |
[1260.34 --> 1264.18] go away in fact i would say the book of acts suggests that the church continues in the power of |
[1264.18 --> 1269.22] the spirit with all the prophetic gifts and all the healing gifts and all the other gifts named in this |
[1269.22 --> 1277.30] passage and some of us present company included have been overly suspicious of some of these gifts and |
[1277.30 --> 1283.22] maybe for good reason because we turn on the tv we see this faith healer on the television and we see how |
[1283.22 --> 1287.70] they're using the money they get to buy not the first not their second but their third jet it's a |
[1287.70 --> 1292.34] bit of a problem they sort of abuse the gift but let's not just throw the baby out with the bath water |
[1292.98 --> 1298.34] these gifts mentioned in first corinthians 12 are needed in the church of jesus christ they're needed |
[1298.34 --> 1307.46] at hope community church and we want you to hear from the stage that these matter to us and if you've been |
[1307.46 --> 1312.02] you know i we had two conversations after the nine a.m service one really moved me because |
[1312.66 --> 1318.58] people often have gifts from their year youngest years and they just think well maybe everyone has |
[1318.58 --> 1322.10] this and someone was just sharing how as long as they've been praying they always have images |
[1322.10 --> 1326.02] often for other people but they've never had someone say hey that's a spiritual gift we want |
[1326.02 --> 1329.86] you to serve with that and i just want to say if you've had ways where you're praying or things |
[1329.86 --> 1335.62] where you're just sensing god speaking to you just lean into that and see where god takes it in service |
[1335.62 --> 1339.54] for the church we need all the gifts serving the kingdom |
[1343.06 --> 1348.26] now we get to verse seven verse seven is a really important verse because here's where we get the why |
[1348.26 --> 1353.54] let me read it for us again now to each of us each one the manifestation of the spirit has been given why |
[1355.30 --> 1361.38] for the common good in our context one of the dangers of spiritual gifts is that it gets sucked into our |
[1361.38 --> 1366.10] selfish individualistic culture where it's like this is my gift that's not my gift this is my |
[1366.10 --> 1371.46] personality type that's not my personality type this is who i am that's who you are rather than saying |
[1371.46 --> 1378.18] the gift was given for the sake of others whatever your spiritual gift is it is not at the end of the |
[1378.18 --> 1386.98] day about you it's about building up the body of christ and serving it is about the person beside you to |
[1386.98 --> 1394.02] teach to care to pray to love to nurture to grow to speak and i love how paul puts it in ephesians 4 |
[1394.02 --> 1401.46] this passage is one of my favorites of ephesians and paul just says from him christ the whole body joined and |
[1401.46 --> 1410.66] held together by every supporting ligament grows and builds itself up in love as each part does its work |
[1411.38 --> 1416.58] and the implication is there is less love and there is less growth if people retreat from and hold their |
[1416.58 --> 1424.02] gifts to themselves selfishly we need all the gifts all the works all the service in the body of christ to |
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