1.  Having gone through some of the more prominent spiritual gifts passages this week, what are some of your spiritual gifts? How can you put that gift to use in a way that will honor God with the method, motive, and results? What is a way that you can serve your church and community that will bring the light of the gospel to those flailing in darkness?2. Looking at your spiritual gifts, what are ...  Read More

Spiritual transformation is God’s work in changing you into the likeness of Jesus.  This is a process in which God changes your worldview, values, attitudes, and behavior.  But to be transformed and part of His workmanship (Ephesians 2:10), we need to understand more about ourselves and how He has uniquely made you to fulfill His purpose.  This is where “Ministry Mapping” is important.  Over the n...  Read More

2 Samuel 11  (HCSB)David’s Adultery with Bathsheba 11 In the spring when kings march out to war, David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem. 2 One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman. 3 So David sent someon...  Read More

1 Corinthians 12:27-31  (HCSB)27 Now you are the body of Christ, and individual members of it. 28 And God has placed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, next miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, managing, various kinds of languages. 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all do miracles? 30 Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in ot...  Read More

1 Corinthians 12:4-11, 28 (HCSB)4 Now there are different gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 There are different ministries, but the same Lord. 6 And there are different activities, but the same God activates each gift in each person. 7 A demonstration of the Spirit is given to each person to produce what is beneficial: 8 to one is given a message of wisdom through the Spirit, to another, a message of ...  Read More

Many Gifts but One Body3 For by the grace given to me, I tell everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he should think. Instead, think sensibly, as God has distributed a measure of faith to each one. 4 Now as we have many parts in one body, and all the parts do not have the same function, 5 in the same way we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members of one an...  Read More

WE ARE GOD'S HANDIWORKWhen you use your spiritual gift, you fulfill a need within the body of Christ.KEY TRUTH: We are God’s Handiwork, Created for Good Works Beforehand (Ephesians 2:10)KEY TRUTH: Spiritual Transformation is a Part of Growth as Believers (Romans 12:2)KEY TRUTH: God Will Use All Aspects of Your Life in Spiritual Transformation: S.E.R.V.E (Spiritual Gifts, Experiences, Relational ...  Read More

1.  What does Romans 1:8-15 teach us about our relationships to one another in the body of Christ? How have you been encouraged in your faith by another believer? How have you been able to encourage someone else in their faith?2. Romans 1:16-17 is an often memorized and quoted verse. However, its larger context includes vss. 14-15. Paul’s desire was to preach the gospel to anyone and everyone wi...  Read More

Romans 2:17-29  (HCSB)Jewish Violation of the Law17 Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rest in the law, boast in God, 18 know His will, and approve the things that are superior, being instructed from the law, 19 and if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light to those in darkness, 20 an instructor of the ignorant, a teacher of the immature, having the full expression of knowl...  Read More

Romans 2:1-16  (HCSB)God’s Righteous Judgment2 Therefore, any one of you who judges is without excuse. For when you judge another, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the same things. 2 We know that God’s judgment on those who do such things is based on the truth. 3 Do you really think—anyone of you who judges those who do such things yet do the same—that you will escape God’s...  Read More

Romans 1:18-32  (HCSB)The Guilt of the Gentile World18 For God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth, 19 since what can be known about God is evident among them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since ...  Read More

Romans 1:16-17  (HCSB)The Righteous Will Live by Faith 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek. 17 For in it God’s righteousness is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.Haley Dorris “For I am not ashamed of the gospel...” To be ashamed means to b...  Read More