Acts 14:21-28 – The Return to Antioch in Syria
- “A Thought on Gifting”
- Just a thought.
- Paul after doing the work of teaching and preaching now shows a huge sense of responsibility by revisiting the Churches.
- Even in places he was driven out of.
- This involves an amount of pastoral work – not his favourite thing from the little we know.
- Makes me think about gifting.
- There is a lot of talk about the thing we most like doing being our gifting and hinting at our calling.
- BUT.
- Is our gifting/calling really to be based on one of our gifts?
- For me; the most successful people I know are usually doing something that blends two gifts together.
- Like Rachel; a dramatic actor but also [unlike many artists] a great organizer of people – she ran theatre companies for Pais sharing their faith in countless schools and now continues to teach others her skills in collages..
- Like Andy; a great speaker but also a business leader who has used both skills to raise a huge amount of financial backing to impact the youth of Manchester.
- Lots of people have the same one thing.
- But far less have the exact same combination of two of more skills.
- It is this 'blend' that makes us uniquely gifted.
- What if…
- Our calling is tied to the spark caused by our two [or more] gifts colliding?
- What if it is not the one thing we love doing, but the one thing that we love doing and the one thing we do well but don’t enjoy, what if it is when these two things collide that leads us to a unique calling?
- Is it this second gift that separates those in it for themselves and those in it for the Kingdom?
- Everyone is happy to just do the one thing they like to do; the challenge is also doing the one thing that gets results but we don’t enjoy.
- Just a thought.
- It would not be popular but that does not make it untrue.
- Praying today for more thoughts on and like this.
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