South Coast | Your Seat Is Not Your Calling
Romans 12:6-8
You don’t want to just church. You want your life to .
📖 Romans 12:4 ESV For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function,
📖 Romans 12:6 ESV l Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them…
3 truths about your gifts:
First truth about your gift:
1. Your gift reveals your .
📖 Romans 12:6-8 ESV Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; 7 if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; 8 the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness..
📖 1 Peter 4:10 ESV As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:
📖 John 15:16 ESV You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Your gift is not meant to IMPRESS people; it’s meant to IMPACT people.
Second truth about your gift:
2. Your gift grows through , not .
📖 2 Timothy 1:6 ESV For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you.
God rarely reveals everything BEFORE we MOVE. He reveals more AS we MOVE.
📖 1 Timothy 4:14-15 ESV Do not neglect the gift you have… Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress.
Third truth about your gift:
3. Your gift is for , not .
📖 1 Corinthians 12:7 ESV A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other.
📖 1 Corinthians 12:21 ESV The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
📖 James 2:17 ESV So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
When you don’t use your gifts, it’s not that SOMETHING doesn’t get DONE; it’s that SOMEONE doesn’t get REACHED.
Sermon in a sentence:
Every believer has a , every gift must be , and every act of service God’s kingdom.
