SDG 111 Seeker Sensitive Churches vs The FAITH Ministry

Ephesians 4:7

So do you know what your 'charismatic gift' is?  Now be careful here I didn’t ask what your natural talent is but rather what your spiritual gift is….

So just what is a charismatic gift?

Well a grace gift or a charismatic gift is a God-GIVEN ability for service and ministry.

Got it?  So it goes beyond your natural talent.

Talent is natural; whereas spiritual gifts are supernatural.

They’re supernatural in source, supernatural in nature, and supernatural in purpose.

Now you do not choose your spiritual gift anymore than you could choose your natural gifts.

Yet today in the seeker sensitive and church growth arena the leadership asks it's member to take these worldly tests that they call "Spiritual Gifts Assessments"

Yet they are nothing more than what a workplace would give an employee to identify their natural strengths and weaknesses!

They are used to develop our NATURAL TALENTS not our 'charis gifts'!

Now sadly for many in the Church they view becoming a Christian as the end of a long process when in Truth it is merely the beginning of a new life.

The point is that you have a spiritual gift if you are born again, so are you using it?  Or are you keeping it hidden?

When the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to heaven, He left each of us an incredible giftedness or inheritance. Perhaps you have not yet discovered what you have in the LORD Jesus Christ.

So in today’s message  we will look at four crucial truths concerning our spiritual gifts and how these 'charis' gifts are DELIVERED, DESCRIBED, DEVELOPED (through desire, discovery, and dependence) and DISPLAYED (through maturity in stature, speech and service)